Reading List (3 and final)

Case study session #4: Gender, Palestine/Israel and ‘Arab Jews’
– Margalit Shilo, “’Flora Saporto’ as a Window into Changes in the Lives of Sephardi Women in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Era”. Journal of Levantine Studies 5,1 (summer 2015), 127-136
– Smadar Lavie, “Writing Against Identity Politics”. American Ethnologist, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 779–803
– Galit Saada-Ophir, “Borderland Pop: Arab Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance”. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 205-233

Case Study #5: Abraham Serfaty’s concept of the ‘juif arabe’
– Abraham Serfaty, “Moroccan Jewry and Zionism” (excerpt). Souffles 15/Anfas 7-8, 1969-72
– Abdelkebir Khatibi, “A Colonial Labyrinth”. Yale French Studies, No. 83, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 2 (1993), 5-11
– Chapter 4 “Portrait of an Arab Jew” and Chapter 5 “Abrahamic Tongues” in Olivia C. Harrison, Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization.
Stanford University Press 2015

Reading list (1)

The readings set for this workshop are listed below and in a second post, in the hope that they will provide a resource for other students and researchers working on related topics.

Historical Background
Gilles Veinstein, “Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire”. In A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora. Princeton University Press, 2014
Henry Laurens, “Judaism and the Religious Denominational Community in the Middle East”. In A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora. Princeton University Press, 2014
Ella Shohat, “The Invention of the Mizrahim.” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 5-20
Michael Lecker, “The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests.” In Dynamics of the History of Religions between Europe and Asia, ed. Volkhard Krech and Marion Steinicke. Brill, 2012
Moshe Behar & Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, “The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 2014, DOI:10.1080/13530194.2014.878506

Opening discussion session
Emily Benichou Gottreich, “Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib”. The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Fall, 2008), pp. 433-451
Moshe Behar, “Mizrahim, Abstracted: Action, Reflection, and the Academization of the Mizrahi Cause”. Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 2008), pp. 89-100
Sahar Mandour, “From Diaspora to Nationalism via Colonialism: The Jewish “Memory” Whitened, Israelized, Pinkwashed, and De-Queered”. Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer 2015)