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Middle Eastern Studies December 23, 2016

Oriental Neighbors

Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor

Hosted by Ari Ariel
Much of the existing literature on Mandatory Palestine adheres to a dual society model which assumes that the Palestinian Arab community and the Jewish Yishuv had separate economic, social, and …
Food May 13, 2016

More Than Just Food

Food Justice and Community Change

Garrett M. Broad

Hosted by Ari Ariel
Resistance to the industrial food system has, over the past decades, led to the rise of alternative food movements. Debate about genetically modified food, sugar consumption, fast food and the …
Food December 17, 2015

Falafel Nation

Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel

Yael Raviv

Hosted by Ari Ariel
In the late nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants inspired by Zionism began to settle in Palestine. Their goal was not only to establish a politically sovereign state, but also to create …
Jewish Studies June 20, 2015

Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen

Mark S. Wagner

Hosted by Ari Ariel
During the early twentieth century, Yemeni Jews operated within a legal structure that defined them as dhimmi, that is, non-Muslims living as a protected population under the sovereignty of an …
Jewish Studies April 6, 2015

Poetic Trespass

Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine

Lital Levy

Hosted by Ari Ariel
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Jewish settlement in Palestine and the revival of Hebrew as a national language have profoundly impacted the relationship between Arabic and Hebrew. In …
Jewish Studies March 26, 2015

Bringing Zion Home

Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967

Emily Alice Katz

Hosted by Ari Ariel
World War Two and the establishment of the State of Israel significantly altered American Jewish attitudes toward Zionism. American Jews supported Israel during times of conflict, like the 1948 war …
Jewish Studies March 10, 2015

Roads Taken

The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way

Hasia Diner

Hosted by Ari Ariel
The period from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries witnessed a mass migration which carried millions of Jews from central and eastern Europe, north Africa, and the Ottoman …
Middle Eastern Studies February 24, 2015

Shattered Dreams of Revolution

From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

Bedross Der Matossian

Hosted by Ari Ariel
The Young Turk revolution of 1908 restored the Ottoman constitution, suspended earlier by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and initiated a new period of parliamentary politics in the Empire. Likewise, the …