The Invention of the Mizrahim

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" The Invention of the Mizrahim "
E. Shohat

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	818185
Doc. No	:	LA97041
Call No	:	‭10.2307/2676427‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	E. Shohat
Title & Author	:	The Invention of the Mizrahim [Article]\ E. Shohat
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Palestine Studies
Date	:	1999
Volume/ Issue Number	:	29/1
Page No	:	5-20
Abstract	:	This essay examines the paradoxical effects on Arab Jews of their two, rival essentialist nationalisms-Jewish and Arab. It shows how the Eurocentric concept of a single "Jewish History" cut non-Ashkenazi Jews off from their origins, even while the 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.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.2307/2676427‬