The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond

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TextSeries: Religion, Culture, and Public LifePublisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2020Description: 304 p., 26 cmISBN:

9780231199216

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Contents:

Introduction : Three Questions That Make One / Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh -- Jackals and Arabs (Once More on the German-Jewish Dialogue) / Gil Anidjar -- An Emblematic Embrace : The New Europe, Anti-Antisemitism, and the Palestinians / Brian Klug -- Palestine in Algeria : The Emergence of an Arab-Islamic Question in the Interwar Period / Amal Ghazal -- On Orientalist Genealogies : The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited / Ella Shohat -- Returning to the Question of Europe : On Arabs, Jews, and Arab-Jews / Hakem Al-Rustom -- Between Shared Homeland to National Home : Balfour Declaration from a Sephardic perspective / Hillel Cohen and Yuval Evri -- Israel and Palestine in Universities : Subjects of Study or Sources of Action? / Derek Penslar -- Apocalypse/Enmity/Dialogue : Negotiating the Depth / Jacqueline Rose -- Competing Marxisms, Cessation of (Settler) Colonialism and the One-State Solution in Israel/Palestine / Moshe Behar -- The Dialectic of National Identities in Palestinian Society and Israeli Society : Nationalism and Binationalism / Maram Masarwi.

Summary: "This book offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish political rights (as individuals, religious communities, and/or a national collective) as these have been shaped by European anti-Semitism and Zionism and of Jewish engagements with the question of how how Jewish voices dealt with Palestinian presence and political rights in historic Palestine. These key political questions are rarely debated today and almost never in relation to each other, though they are inextricably intertwined. The "Jewish Question" arose in Europe in the 19th century in the context of the centrality of Christianity and rising forms of nationalism; it became a concern in the Middle East with the Zionist proposal to create an independent Jewish state in Palestine, a proposition viewed by Arabs at the time (at start of the 20th century) as colonialist. Zionists for the most part dismissed the "Arab Question"--what to do with the Arab population living in Palestine--by ignoring it or denigrating Palestinians as primitive and backward! After partition and the "war of independence" in 1948, these questions were rarely discussed despite well over a half-century of conflict in the Middle East. The 2011 uprisings and universally acknowledged failure of the Oslo peace accords have made the question of how individual and collective political rights can be protected outside the framework of territorial sovereignty even more urgent--a question that pertains not only to Palestine but to all Middle Eastern states with sizable religious minorities. The premise of this book is that it is politically imperative and morally necessary to engage with the challenge of diversity in the wider region of the Middle East by reexamining the inseparability of the Arab and Jewish struggle for self-determination and political equality. Contributors from the fields of history, religion, political science, philosophy, English, social work, and cultural studies include Gil Anidjar, Hakem Al-Rustom, Derek Penslar, Brian King, Maram Masarwi, Ella Shohut, and Jacqueline Rose"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish political rights (as individuals, religious communities, and/or a national collective) as these have been shaped by European anti-Semitism and Zionism and of Jewish engagements with the question of how how Jewish voices dealt with Palestinian presence and political rights in historic Palestine. These key political questions are rarely debated today and almost never in relation to each other, though they are inextricably intertwined. The "Jewish Question" arose in Europe in the 19th century in the context of the centrality of Christianity and rising forms of nationalism; it became a concern in the Middle East with the Zionist proposal to create an independent Jewish state in Palestine, a proposition viewed by Arabs at the time (at start of the 20th century) as colonialist. Zionists for the most part dismissed the "Arab Question"--what to do with the Arab population living in Palestine--by ignoring it or denigrating Palestinians as primitive and backward! After partition and the "war of independence" in 1948, these questions were rarely discussed despite well over a half-century of conflict in the Middle East. The 2011 uprisings and universally acknowledged failure of the Oslo peace accords have made the question of how individual and collective political rights can be protected outside the framework of territorial sovereignty even more urgent--a question that pertains not only to Palestine but to all Middle Eastern states with sizable religious minorities. The premise of this book is that it is politically imperative and morally necessary to engage with the challenge of diversity in the wider region of the Middle East by reexamining the inseparability of the Arab and Jewish struggle for self-determination and political equality. Contributors from the fields of history, religion, political science, philosophy, English, social work, and cultural studies include Gil Anidjar, Hakem Al-Rustom, Derek Penslar, Brian King, Maram Masarwi, Ella Shohut, and Jacqueline Rose"-- Provided by publisher.

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