• DOI:10.2307/2676427
Corpus ID: 154022510

The Invention of the Mizrahim

@article{Shohat1999TheIO,
  title={The Invention of the Mizrahim},
  author={Ella Shohat},
  journal={Journal of Palestine Studies},
  year={1999},
  volume={29},
  pages={5-20}
}

Ella Shohat

Published 1999

Political Science

Journal of Palestine Studies

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 Israel9s assimilationist policy and of resistance to… CONTINUE READING

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