Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958

Book Overview

This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584658851
• ISBN13: 9781584658856
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"