Reuven Snir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reuven Snir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reuven |
| FAMILY NAME | Snir |
| SIGNATURE | SNIR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4505-2918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“My Iraq Was Lost Forever”
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies encourages research on the Canadian Jewish experience through the disciplines of political science, sociology, economics, geography, history, demography, education, religion, linguistics, literature, architecture, performing and fine arts, among others
Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures
Studies Arabic literary production from the point of view of commitment and hybridization and the interactions between them Discusses the role of the 1948 Nakba in shaping Palestinian culture and literature Presents the contribution of Maḥmūd Darwīsh in the process of Palestinian nation-building Sheds light on the emergence of Palestinian theatrical movement Provocatively rereads the history of Jewish involvement in Arabic literature Laments the …
Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures
The aim of the book is to summarize my studies on Palestinian and Arab-Jewish cultures in both their historical and contemporary manifestations, and to introduce fresh and updated insights based on additional recent investigations. The scholarship on both fields during recent decades seems to have been conducted both in isolation and independently, mainly developed by academics with different areas of expertise. In this vein, I argue that, due to…
‘Where Are You, My Beloved Iraq?’
We are currently witnessing the demise of Arab-Jewish identity and culture - a tradition that started more than 1,500 years ago is vanishing before our very own eyes. Until the twentieth century, the great majority of the Jews under the rule of Islam used Arabic as their language but after the establishment of the State of Israel, Arabic has been gradually disappearing as a language mastered by Jews. The Arabized Jews have been deliberately exclu…
“These Hearts, Can They Reach Tranquility?”
The article examines the Arabic literary poetry written by Iraqi Jews in Israel during the 1950s after their immigration from Iraq. This temporal revival of Arabic poetry by Jews was the swan song of the Arab-Jewish culture as we are currently witnessing its demise– a tradition that started more than fifteen hundred years ago is vanishing before our eyes. Until the twentieth century, the great majority of the Jews under the rule of Islam adopted …
Kafka’s “Frightened Mouse”
Existentialist doctrine and neo-Sufi Arabic poetry share the conviction of the worthlessness of human existence – strangeness, alienation, wondering about the meaning and purpose of life, and deep depression after the tragic nature of human existence are imprinted on the character of man by the very nature of his humanness. Two short literary texts, one by the Austrian novelist Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and the other by the Egyptian poet Ṣalāḥ ʿAbd…
If I Forget Thee, O Baghdad”
This article examines the emergence of the modern Arabic literary writing of the Jews of Iraq and, after only a few decades, the start of its demise, in both Iraq and outside it, and then the switch to writing in Hebrew in Israel. The high point of such writing in Arabic was during the 1920s when Iraqi-Jews started to produce literary works that "were Arabic in essence and expression." It was a secular literature, inspired by a cultural vision wh…
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?
In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?: Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities, Professor Reuven Snir, Dean of Humanities at Haifa University, presents a new approach to the study of Arab-Jewish identity and the subjectivities of Arabized Jews. Against the historical background of Arab-Jewish culture and in light of identity theory, Snir shows how the exclusion that the Arabized Jews had experienced, both in their mother countries an…
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Fragmented Consciousness, “Inessential Solidarity,” and the “Coming Community” (Part 2)
The title, as the study itself, has been inspired by four theoretical contributions: first, Stuart Hall's essay “Introduction: Who Needs ‘Identity’” (in Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay. London: Sage, 1996); second, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, which opens with the sentence: “Striving to be both European and black requires some specific forms of double consciousness. But sayi…
Baghdad
Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's enduring metropolises. This unusual anthology offers original translations of 170 Arabic poems from Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets--most for the first time in English--from Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day.
Baghdad
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Fragmented Consciousness, “Inessential Solidarity,” and the “Coming Community”1 (Part 1)
The title, as the study itself, has been inspired by four theoretical contributions: first, Stuart Hall's essay “Introduction: Who Needs ‘Identity’” (in Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay. London: Sage, 1996); second, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, which opens with the sentence: “Striving to be both European and black requires some specific forms of double consciousness. But sayi…
My Adherence to the Creed of Moses Has Not Diminished My Love for Muhammad's Nation
In modern times, nowhere were Jews as open to involvement in wider Arab culture or more at home in standard literary Arabic than in Iraq during the first half of the twentieth century. Among the newly emerging Iraqi intelligentsia of the time were young secular Jews who saw themselves as Arab citizens loyal to the country of their birth. The reality in which they lived and worked was one of close symbiotic contact with the wider Arab-Muslim cultu…
Arabic Journalism as a Vehicle for Enlightenment
Jews were nowhere as open to participation in the wider Arab culture and at home in standard literary Arabic as in Iraq in the twentieth century. There was a strong connection between the Iraqi Jews’ involvement in the canonical Arab culture and their participation in Iraqi press and journalism. Trying to integrate into the local society, Iraqi Jews founded their own Arabic newspapers and served as editors and journalists in many other Iraqi peri…
Mosaic Arabs” between Total and Conditioned Arabization
Jewish involvement in Arabic press and journalism accompanied the process of modernization of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa from the second half of the nineteenth century. There was a connection between the nature of the Jews' involvement in the canonical Arab culture and the development of the Arabic-Jewish press and journalism: wherever Jews tried to integrate socially, politically and above all culturally into society,…
Arabs of the Mosaic Faith
On 14 December, 1984, was sitting in the news department of the Voice of Israel, Arabic section. Our correspondent had just informed us that the poet Sh?'ul (1904-1984) had passed away, in Kiron, near Tel-Aviv. We broadcast this news along with a short biography. Over the internal telephone network, called the news editor in the Hebrew section; it was important, thought, to let Israeli citizens know that one of the last Arab-Jewish po ets had pas…
Arabic Literature by Iraqi Jews in the Twentieth Century
When Time Stopped
When Time Stopped":Ishaq Bar-Moshe as Arab-Jewish Writer in Israel Reuven Snir (bio) In the sixth century, when Arabic reached its full development with the appearance of poetry of high standing, Jewish communities were flourishing throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Jews as an integral part of Arab society participated in the making of the local culture, and Arab-Jewish tribes had distinguished poets. One such poet, al-Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya', even b…
My Heart Beats with Love of the Arabs
Palestinian theatre
(1995). Palestinian theatre: Historical development and contemporary distinctive identity. Contemporary Theatre Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 29-73.
A Study of "Elegy for Al-Hallāj" By Adunis
"Kazzaz, "The Jews in Iraq in the Twentieth Century
Modern Arabic Literature and Islamist Discourse
With the rise of Islam, Arab civilization was given a defined ideological and cultural framework within which it could develop. Islam, as a system of symbols, represents the most significant factor in the explanation of Arab cultural, intellectual, and literary history since the seventh century. Arabic literature was never wholly a religious one, but since the revelation of the Qur'ān, the various activities in the literary system generally occur…
Arabic Literature by Iraqi Jews in the Twentieth Century
Mosaic Arabs” between Total and Conditioned Arabization
Jewish involvement in Arabic press and journalism accompanied the process of modernization of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa from the second half of the nineteenth century. There was a connection between the nature of the Jews' involvement in the canonical Arab culture and the development of the Arabic-Jewish press and journalism: wherever Jews tried to integrate socially, politically and above all culturally into society,…
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Fragmented Consciousness, “Inessential Solidarity,” and the “Coming Community” (Part 2)
The title, as the study itself, has been inspired by four theoretical contributions: first, Stuart Hall's essay “Introduction: Who Needs ‘Identity’” (in Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay. London: Sage, 1996); second, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, which opens with the sentence: “Striving to be both European and black requires some specific forms of double consciousness. But sayi…
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Fragmented Consciousness, “Inessential Solidarity,” and the “Coming Community”1 (Part 1)
The title, as the study itself, has been inspired by four theoretical contributions: first, Stuart Hall's essay “Introduction: Who Needs ‘Identity’” (in Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay. London: Sage, 1996); second, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, which opens with the sentence: “Striving to be both European and black requires some specific forms of double consciousness. But sayi…
My Adherence to the Creed of Moses Has Not Diminished My Love for Muhammad's Nation
In modern times, nowhere were Jews as open to involvement in wider Arab culture or more at home in standard literary Arabic than in Iraq during the first half of the twentieth century. Among the newly emerging Iraqi intelligentsia of the time were young secular Jews who saw themselves as Arab citizens loyal to the country of their birth. The reality in which they lived and worked was one of close symbiotic contact with the wider Arab-Muslim cultu…
When Time Stopped
When Time Stopped":Ishaq Bar-Moshe as Arab-Jewish Writer in Israel Reuven Snir (bio) In the sixth century, when Arabic reached its full development with the appearance of poetry of high standing, Jewish communities were flourishing throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Jews as an integral part of Arab society participated in the making of the local culture, and Arab-Jewish tribes had distinguished poets. One such poet, al-Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya', even b…
Modern Arabic Literature and Islamist Discourse
With the rise of Islam, Arab civilization was given a defined ideological and cultural framework within which it could develop. Islam, as a system of symbols, represents the most significant factor in the explanation of Arab cultural, intellectual, and literary history since the seventh century. Arabic literature was never wholly a religious one, but since the revelation of the Qur'ān, the various activities in the literary system generally occur…
A Study of "Elegy for Al-Hallāj" By Adunis
"Kazzaz, "The Jews in Iraq in the Twentieth Century
Palestinian theatre
(1995). Palestinian theatre: Historical development and contemporary distinctive identity. Contemporary Theatre Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 29-73.
My Heart Beats with Love of the Arabs
Arabic Literature by Iraqi Jews in the Twentieth Century
When Time Stopped
When Time Stopped":Ishaq Bar-Moshe as Arab-Jewish Writer in Israel Reuven Snir (bio) In the sixth century, when Arabic reached its full development with the appearance of poetry of high standing, Jewish communities were flourishing throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Jews as an integral part of Arab society participated in the making of the local culture, and Arab-Jewish tribes had distinguished poets. One such poet, al-Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya', even b…
Arabs of the Mosaic Faith
On 14 December, 1984, was sitting in the news department of the Voice of Israel, Arabic section. Our correspondent had just informed us that the poet Sh?'ul (1904-1984) had passed away, in Kiron, near Tel-Aviv. We broadcast this news along with a short biography. Over the internal telephone network, called the news editor in the Hebrew section; it was important, thought, to let Israeli citizens know that one of the last Arab-Jewish po ets had pas…
Arabic Journalism as a Vehicle for Enlightenment
Jews were nowhere as open to participation in the wider Arab culture and at home in standard literary Arabic as in Iraq in the twentieth century. There was a strong connection between the Iraqi Jews’ involvement in the canonical Arab culture and their participation in Iraqi press and journalism. Trying to integrate into the local society, Iraqi Jews founded their own Arabic newspapers and served as editors and journalists in many other Iraqi peri…
Mosaic Arabs” between Total and Conditioned Arabization
Jewish involvement in Arabic press and journalism accompanied the process of modernization of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa from the second half of the nineteenth century. There was a connection between the nature of the Jews' involvement in the canonical Arab culture and the development of the Arabic-Jewish press and journalism: wherever Jews tried to integrate socially, politically and above all culturally into society,…
My Adherence to the Creed of Moses Has Not Diminished My Love for Muhammad's Nation
In modern times, nowhere were Jews as open to involvement in wider Arab culture or more at home in standard literary Arabic than in Iraq during the first half of the twentieth century. Among the newly emerging Iraqi intelligentsia of the time were young secular Jews who saw themselves as Arab citizens loyal to the country of their birth. The reality in which they lived and worked was one of close symbiotic contact with the wider Arab-Muslim cultu…
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Fragmented Consciousness, “Inessential Solidarity,” and the “Coming Community”1 (Part 1)
The title, as the study itself, has been inspired by four theoretical contributions: first, Stuart Hall's essay “Introduction: Who Needs ‘Identity’” (in Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay. London: Sage, 1996); second, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, which opens with the sentence: “Striving to be both European and black requires some specific forms of double consciousness. But sayi…
Baghdad
Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's enduring metropolises. This unusual anthology offers original translations of 170 Arabic poems from Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets--most for the first time in English--from Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day.
Baghdad
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?
In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?: Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities, Professor Reuven Snir, Dean of Humanities at Haifa University, presents a new approach to the study of Arab-Jewish identity and the subjectivities of Arabized Jews. Against the historical background of Arab-Jewish culture and in light of identity theory, Snir shows how the exclusion that the Arabized Jews had experienced, both in their mother countries an…
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Fragmented Consciousness, “Inessential Solidarity,” and the “Coming Community” (Part 2)
The title, as the study itself, has been inspired by four theoretical contributions: first, Stuart Hall's essay “Introduction: Who Needs ‘Identity’” (in Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay. London: Sage, 1996); second, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, which opens with the sentence: “Striving to be both European and black requires some specific forms of double consciousness. But sayi…
“These Hearts, Can They Reach Tranquility?”
The article examines the Arabic literary poetry written by Iraqi Jews in Israel during the 1950s after their immigration from Iraq. This temporal revival of Arabic poetry by Jews was the swan song of the Arab-Jewish culture as we are currently witnessing its demise– a tradition that started more than fifteen hundred years ago is vanishing before our eyes. Until the twentieth century, the great majority of the Jews under the rule of Islam adopted …
Kafka’s “Frightened Mouse”
Existentialist doctrine and neo-Sufi Arabic poetry share the conviction of the worthlessness of human existence – strangeness, alienation, wondering about the meaning and purpose of life, and deep depression after the tragic nature of human existence are imprinted on the character of man by the very nature of his humanness. Two short literary texts, one by the Austrian novelist Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and the other by the Egyptian poet Ṣalāḥ ʿAbd…
If I Forget Thee, O Baghdad”
This article examines the emergence of the modern Arabic literary writing of the Jews of Iraq and, after only a few decades, the start of its demise, in both Iraq and outside it, and then the switch to writing in Hebrew in Israel. The high point of such writing in Arabic was during the 1920s when Iraqi-Jews started to produce literary works that "were Arabic in essence and expression." It was a secular literature, inspired by a cultural vision wh…
Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures
Studies Arabic literary production from the point of view of commitment and hybridization and the interactions between them Discusses the role of the 1948 Nakba in shaping Palestinian culture and literature Presents the contribution of Maḥmūd Darwīsh in the process of Palestinian nation-building Sheds light on the emergence of Palestinian theatrical movement Provocatively rereads the history of Jewish involvement in Arabic literature Laments the …
Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures
The aim of the book is to summarize my studies on Palestinian and Arab-Jewish cultures in both their historical and contemporary manifestations, and to introduce fresh and updated insights based on additional recent investigations. The scholarship on both fields during recent decades seems to have been conducted both in isolation and independently, mainly developed by academics with different areas of expertise. In this vein, I argue that, due to…
‘Where Are You, My Beloved Iraq?’
We are currently witnessing the demise of Arab-Jewish identity and culture - a tradition that started more than 1,500 years ago is vanishing before our very own eyes. Until the twentieth century, the great majority of the Jews under the rule of Islam used Arabic as their language but after the establishment of the State of Israel, Arabic has been gradually disappearing as a language mastered by Jews. The Arabized Jews have been deliberately exclu…
“My Iraq Was Lost Forever”
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies encourages research on the Canadian Jewish experience through the disciplines of political science, sociology, economics, geography, history, demography, education, religion, linguistics, literature, architecture, performing and fine arts, among others
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