Ethnicity and National Memory: The World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC) in the Context of the Palestinian National Struggle

@article{Shenhav2002EthnicityAN,
  title={Ethnicity and National Memory: The World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC) in the Context of the Palestinian National Struggle},
  author={Y. A. Shenhav},
  journal={British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies},
  year={2002},
  volume={29},
  pages={27 - 56}
}
  • Y. Shenhav
  • Published 1 May 2002
  • Sociology
  • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
The article examines the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC) as a community of memory, operating within the realms of Israeli national memory, endeavouring to refurbish them but dismantling them instead. A central thrust of the analysis (which refers to the period 1975-1999) concerns the anomalous relationship between nationalism and ethnicity. WOJAC's aspiration was to operate in the national arena, to counterbalance the claims of the Palestinian leadership on the right to… 
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