Arab Jews

Yehouda Shenhav is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Manufacturing Rationality (1999) and The Organization Machine (1995, in Hebrew); and the editor of Mizrahim in Israel (2002, in Hebrew) and Coloniality and the Postcolonial Condition (2004, in Hebrew).

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii @toc2:History Begins at Home000 @toc2:1The "Discovery" of the Arab Jews000 @toc2:2Encounter in Abadan: Colonialism, Eurocentrism, and Jewish Orientalism 000 @toc2:3How Did the Arab Jews Become Religious and Zionist?000 @toc2:4What Do the Arab Jews and the Palestinians Have in Common? Population Exchange, the Right of Return, and the Politics of Reparations000 @toc2:5The Arab Jews and Zionist Historical Memory000 @toc2:Beyond Methodological Zionism000 @toc4:Notes000 Select Bibliography000 Index000

"...this is a brave, fascinating, excellent book that will mark an important turning point in the study of Jews from Arab and Islamic countries and their relationship to the Jewish state." - xMiddle East Journal "Shenhav provides an erudite account of how the history of the Arab Jews complicates the presuppositions undergirding teleological and state-centered Zionist historiography... Because his approach does not subscribe to a simple dichotomisation between secular and religious interpretations of national identity, Shenhav's recognition of the elastic nexus of religion, nationalism and ethnicity may contribute a valuable framework for future reflections on the role of religion in conflict and peace-building." - Nations and Nationalisms "The cultural conflict faced by Jews, functioning under what might be considered a common ideology—Zionism—is deftly analyzed." - Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter