Saif al-Arab
BANNED
The Invention of the Mizrahim
Ella Shohat
This essay examines the paradoxical effects on Arab Jews of their two, rival essentialist nationalism - Jewish and Arab. It shows how the Eurocentric concept of a single "Jewish History" cut non-Ashkenazi Jews off from their origins, even while Zionist idea that Arabness and Jewishness are mutually exclusive gradually came to be shared by Arab nationalist discourse. The emergence of a new, hybrid identity of Mizrahim, as a product both of Israel's assimilationist policy and of resistance to it, is discussed. Finally, the author proposes an interdisciplinary framework - Mizrahi studies - as a way of going beyond hegemonic Zionist discourses while at the same time making a strong link to the Palestinian issue.
http://img2.tapuz.co.il/CommunaFiles/44245324.pdf
A very interesting and much recommend read for Arabs.
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