Unwitting Zionists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unwitting Zionists write by Haya Gavish. This book was released on 2010. Unwitting Zionists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community's attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and Israel. Unwitting Zionists examines the Jewish community in the northern Kurdistan town of Zakho from the end of the Ottoman period until the disappearance of the community through aliyah by 1951. Because of its remote location, Zakho was far removed from the influence of the Jewish religious leadership in Iraq and preserved many of its religious traditions independently, becoming the most important Jewish community in the region and known as "Jerusalem of Kurdistan." Author Haya Gavish argues, therefore, that when the community was exposed to Zionism, it began to open up to external influences and activity. Originally published in Hebrew, Unwitting Zionists uses personal memoirs, historical records, and interviews to investigate the duality between Jewish tradition and Zionism among Zakho's Jews. Gavish consults a variety of sources to examine the changes undergone by the Jewish community as a result of its religious affiliation with Eretz-Israel, its exposure to Zionist efforts, and its eventual immigration to Israel. Because relatively little written documentation about Zakho exists, Gavish relies heavily on folkloristic sources like personal recollections and traditional stories, including extensive material from her own fieldwork with an economically and demographically diverse group of men and women from Zakho. She analyzes this firsthand information within a historical framework to reconstruct a communal reality and lifestyle that was virtually unknown to anyone outside of the community. Appendixes contain biographical details of the interviewees for additional background. Gavish also addresses the relative merits of personal memoirs, optimal interviewer-interviewee relationships, and the problem of relying on the interviewees' memories in her study. Folklore, oral history, anthropology, and Israeli studies scholars, as well as anyone wanting to learn more about religion, commuity, and nationality in the Middle East will appreciate Unwitting Zionists.
The Case of the Anti-Zionists
The Case of the Anti-Zionists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Case of the Anti-Zionists write by Leon Simon. This book was released on 1917. The Case of the Anti-Zionists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History write by Richard I. Cohen. This book was released on 2012-12-20. Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
If I Am Not for Myself
If I Am Not for Myself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If I Am Not for Myself write by Mike Marqusee. This book was released on 2011-08-23. If I Am Not for Myself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his grandfather's life in Jewish New York of the 1930s and 40s, his struggles with anti-Semitism and the twists and turns that led him from anti-fascism to militant Zionism. In the course of this deeply personal story, Marqusee refutes the claims of Israel and Zionism on Jewish loyalty and laments their impact on the Jewish diaspora. Rather, he argues for a richer, more multi-dimensional understanding of Jewish history and identity, and reclaims vital political and personal space for those castigated as "self-haters" by the Jewish establishment.
The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho
The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho write by Oz Aloni. This book was released on 2022-02-10. The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1951, the secluded Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho migrated collectively to Israel. It carried with it its unique language, culture and customs, many of which bore resemblance to those found in classical rabbinic literature. Like others in Kurdistan, for example, the Jews of Zakho retained a vibrant tradition of creating and performing songs based on embellishing biblical stories with Aggadic traditions. Despite the recent growth of scholarly interest into Neo-Aramaic communities, however, studies have to this point almost exclusively focused on the linguistic analysis of their critically endangered dialects and little attention has been paid to the sociological, historical and literary analysis of the cultural output of the diverse and isolated Neo-Aramaic communities of Kurdistan. In this innovative book, Oz Aloni seeks to redress this balance. Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech. The Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have kindly supported the publication of this volume
