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December 23, 2016
Oriental Neighbors
Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor
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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 …
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May 13, 2016
More Than Just Food
Food Justice and Community Change
Garrett M. Broad
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …