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Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Mashriq

Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Mashriq T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 98, No. 4 (Fall 2008) 452­469 L I TA L L E V Y A S I S W E L L K N OW N , the long arm of the Arab-Israeli conflict reached far beyond the geographical borders of Palestine. Prior to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, somewhere between 700,000 and 850,000 Jews lived in inveterate communities spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa. By the end of the century, all the historic Jewish communities of the region (with the partial exceptions of Morocco and Iran) were to meet a single fate--dislocation and dispersal--effectively vanishing with nary a trace left in their countries of origin. These were indigenous communities (in some cases, present in area for millennia) whose unique, syncretic cultures have since been completely expunged as a result of emigration--whether to Israel, where they were subjected to a systematic program of deracination and resocialization, or to the West, where in most places ``Jewish'' was more or less synonymous with ``Ashkenazi'' and the concept of Jews http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Mashriq

Levy, Lital.
Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 98 (4) – Nov 15, 2008
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T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 98, No. 4 (Fall 2008) 452­469 L I TA L L E V Y A S I S W E L L K N OW N , the long arm of the Arab-Israeli conflict reached far beyond the geographical borders of Palestine. Prior to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, somewhere between 700,000 and 850,000 Jews lived in inveterate communities spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa. By the end of the century, all the historic Jewish communities of the region (with the partial exceptions of Morocco and Iran) were to meet a single fate--dislocation and dispersal--effectively vanishing with nary a trace left in their countries of origin. These were indigenous communities (in some cases, present in area for millennia) whose unique, syncretic cultures have since been completely expunged as a result of emigration--whether to Israel, where they were subjected to a systematic program of deracination and resocialization, or to the West, where in most places ``Jewish'' was more or less synonymous with ``Ashkenazi'' and the concept of Jews

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Published: Nov 15, 2008

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