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The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917–1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched her writing career with publications in prominent American journals. Kahanoff later settled in Israel, where she became a noted cultural and literary critic. Mongrels or Marvels offers Kahanoff's most influential and engaging writings, selected from essays and works of fiction that anticipate contemporary concerns about cultural integration in immigrant societies. Confronted with the breakdown of cosmopolitan Egyptian society, and the stereotypes she encountered as a Jew from the Arab world, she developed a social model, Levantinism, that embraces the idea of a pluralist, multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East with the possibility of mutual respect and acceptance.

Jewish-Arab relations. --- Arab-Jewish relations --- Palestine problem (To 1948) --- Jews --- Palestinian Arabs --- Shohet, Jacqueline

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Dance and Authenticity is an ethnography of dance performance and cultural form. It describes how dabkeh , a type of dance performed at Palestinian weddings, became a model for the Israeli Jewish debkah as a means of affirming Israeli Jewish belonging and common society. The Palestinian dabkeh , in turn, acquired nationalist meanings, especially after the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. The book traces the history of these competing, and conflicting, dance forms, basing the argument principally on the ethnographic study of two Palestinian and one Israeli Jewish dance group conducted between 1998 and 1999. The result is a fascinating parallel ethnography, showing how the ethnography of dance forms contributes to evolving notions of collective national and political identity in a context of unequal power.

Folk dancing --- Jewish-Arab relations. --- Folk dances --- National dances --- Dance --- Arab-Jewish relations --- Palestine problem (To 1948) --- Jews --- Palestinian Arabs --- History. --- Social aspects

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Arguing that a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depends on a resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within Israel as much as it does on resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, this timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel's Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority. It warns that if Jewish-Arab relations in Israel continue to deteriorate, this will pose a serious threat to the stability of Israel, to the quality of Israeli democracy and to the potential for peace in the Middle East. The book examines the views and attitudes of both the Palestinian minority and the Jewish majority, as well as the Israeli state's historic approach to its Arab citizens. Drawing upon the experience of other states with national minorities, the authors put forward specific proposals for safeguarding and enhancing the rights of the Palestinian minority while maintaining the country's Jewish identity.

Arab-Israeli conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Palestinian Arabs --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Arab-Jewish relations --- Palestine problem (To 1948) --- Jews --- Palestinian Arabs. --- Jewish-Arab relations. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

Jewish-Arab relations --- Jews --- Labor Zionism --- Land settlement --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Arab-Jewish relations --- Palestine problem (To 1948) --- Palestinian Arabs --- History --- Colonization --- Land settlement. --- History of Asia --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- Israel --- Palestine

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Zionism. --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Palestinian Arabs --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- History --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Jewish-Arab relations. --- Arab-Jewish relations --- Palestine problem (To 1948)