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This book brings together leading scholars to consider how the ¿Jewish Question¿ and the ¿Arab Question¿ are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Three Questions That Make One, by Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh
Part I. Interrogating Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Colonialism
1. Jackals and Arabs: Once More on the German-Jewish Dialogue, by Gil Anidjar
2. An Emblematic Embrace: New Europe, the Jewish State, and the Palestinian Question, by Brian Klug
3. Palestine in Algeria: The Emergence of an Arab-Islamic Question in the Interwar Period, by Amal Ghazal
Part II. Beyond the Binary Division Between “Jews” and “Arabs”: Revisiting National Constructs
4. On Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited, by Ella Shohat
5. Returning to the Question of Europe: From the Standpoint of the Defeated, by Hakem Al-Rustom
6. Between Shared Homeland to National Home: The Balfour Declaration from a Native Sephardic Perspective, by Yuval Evri and Hillel Cohen
7. Toward a Field of Israel/Palestine Studies, by Derek Penslar
Part III. Stubborn Realities and Alternative Visions for Palestine/Israel
8. Apocalypse/Emnity/Dialogue: Negotiating the Depths, by Jacqueline Rose
9. Competing Marxisms, Cessation of (Settler) Colonialism, and the One-State Solution in Israel-Palestine, by Moshe Behar
10. Dialectic of the National Identities in Palestinian Society and Israeli Society: Nationalism and Binationalism, by Maram Masarwi
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Bashir Bashir is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is coeditor of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (2008) and The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (Columbia, 2018).
Leila Farsakh is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her books include Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation, second edition (2012).
Summary
This book brings together leading scholars to consider how the “Jewish Question” and the “Arab Question” are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights.
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Reaching beyond the siloed debates that often mark studies of Jews and Arabs in European and Middle Eastern contexts, this path-breaking volume opens unexpected conversations across several fields and geographic sites from the nineteenth century to contemporary Israel/Palestine. With a commitment to understanding the consolidation and unraveling of contingent identities and collective national projects—as well as the intimate connections between disparate struggles for self-determination—the contributors to The Arab and Jewish Questions guide us with new ways of thinking through the history and political evolution of Zionism, the Palestinian question, and Jewish-Arab relations.
