Moshe Behar
Biographic Data
| ID | 820719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moshe Behar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moshe |
| FAMILY NAME | Behar |
| SIGNATURE | BEHAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Entanglements
The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism - whether intentionally or not - has had the effect of separating antisemitism from other forms of racism. Of the eleven illustrations that the IHRA definition marshals to exemplify antisemitism, seven relate to post-1948 Israel. As a result, the Zionist/Arab matrix dominates the definition, and the examples come across as concerned more with the protection of Israel than the protection of Jews, let alo…
The birth of the Mizrahi–Ashkenazi controversy
The question was simple: should the Hebraist Zionist movement in Ottoman Palestine invest in publishing a newspaper in Arabic and, if yes, should it be communitarian Jewish or general in its topics? What began as yet another obscure intra-Zionist deliberation gradually crystallized into what I argue merits the label of the earliest, explicitly Ashkenazi–Mizrahi ethnic controversy. This is with the smallest risk of the superimposition in hindsight…
Fusing Arab Nahda , European Haskalah and Euro-Zionism
Exactly 100 years ago, after local Ottoman representatives had raised the white flag, General Edmund Allenby, commander of Britain’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force, entered the Old City of Jerusalem
The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
While the vast scholarly fields of modern Jewish thought and modern Jewish intellectual history effectively include no texts by Jews who are of non-European origin, the domain of modern Middle Eastern intellectual history includes no writings by native Middle Eastern Jews. Aiming to help remedy this dual void, this article presents the core premises and argumentation of several pre-1936 Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals. In filling in some of t…
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politic…
Unparallel Universes
Sceptical of the ideational and non-regional terms ruling the post-1993 one-state/two-state (1S2S) exchange about the Palestine/Israel question, this article is in two parts. Part I demonstrates that no Israeli-Jewish constituency exists to support a viable two-state solution while concurrently arguing that the breathtaking one-state vision—in the form of a secular-democratic or bi-national state—is equally unlikely to materialise. The sole empir…
Across Nationalisms
If nations are non-preordained configurations of socio-political collectivities then they cement – or fragment – as a consequence of two core sets of on-the-ground interactions: those taking place within a national movement among contending intra-national constituents; and those taking place between competing national movements, typically over territory. A third set of on-the-ground socio-political interactions has received less attention in the …
What's in a name? Socio-terminological formations and the case for 'Arabized-Jews
Until the conclusion of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, there were roughly 750,000 Jews living in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria and Palestine/Israel. A comparative electronic survey of some 900 journals reveals that when scholars referred to these individuals collectively during the last 200 years they employed some twenty different signifiers. The question I address is simple yet potentially foundational: which …
Mizrahim, Abstracted
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMoshe BeharMoshe Behar is a lecturer in Middle Eastern studies in the school of languages, linguistics, and cultures at the University of Manchester, U.K. His most recent article is ""Palestine, Arabized Jews, and the Elusive Consequences of Jewish and Arab National Formations,"" Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 13, no. 4 (2007), pp. 581––611
Palestine, Arabized Jews and the Elusive Consequences of Jewish and Arab National Formations
This article analyzes Jewish and Arab national formations by exploring dynamics surrounding their border-zone community of Arabized-Jews during the first half of the 20th century. As the internal composition of the Arab and Zionist-Jewish collectivities was not pre-ordained, their sociopolitical demarcations fluctuated as a consequence of domestic, regional and international developments. The Jewish and Arab national movements sometimes included …
Do Comparative and Regional Studies of Nationalism Intersect
The question behind this article evolved from two separate observations. While the expansion of comparative and cross-regional research has been actively promoted by leading scholars of the Middle East (and was later encouraged by such bodies as the Middle East Studies Association and this journal), so has the incorporation of scholarly insights from area studies been urged by leading political scientists as a prerequisite for revitalizing all of…
The peace process and Israeli domestic politics in the 1990s
(2002). The peace process and Israeli domestic politics in the 1990s. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 34-48
Palestine, Arabized Jews and the Elusive Consequences of Jewish and Arab National Formations
This article analyzes Jewish and Arab national formations by exploring dynamics surrounding their border-zone community of Arabized-Jews during the first half of the 20th century. As the internal composition of the Arab and Zionist-Jewish collectivities was not pre-ordained, their sociopolitical demarcations fluctuated as a consequence of domestic, regional and international developments. The Jewish and Arab national movements sometimes included …
The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
While the vast scholarly fields of modern Jewish thought and modern Jewish intellectual history effectively include no texts by Jews who are of non-European origin, the domain of modern Middle Eastern intellectual history includes no writings by native Middle Eastern Jews. Aiming to help remedy this dual void, this article presents the core premises and argumentation of several pre-1936 Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals. In filling in some of t…
What's in a name? Socio-terminological formations and the case for 'Arabized-Jews
Until the conclusion of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, there were roughly 750,000 Jews living in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria and Palestine/Israel. A comparative electronic survey of some 900 journals reveals that when scholars referred to these individuals collectively during the last 200 years they employed some twenty different signifiers. The question I address is simple yet potentially foundational: which …
Mizrahim, Abstracted
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMoshe BeharMoshe Behar is a lecturer in Middle Eastern studies in the school of languages, linguistics, and cultures at the University of Manchester, U.K. His most recent article is ""Palestine, Arabized Jews, and the Elusive Consequences of Jewish and Arab National Formations,"" Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 13, no. 4 (2007), pp. 581––611
Do Comparative and Regional Studies of Nationalism Intersect
The question behind this article evolved from two separate observations. While the expansion of comparative and cross-regional research has been actively promoted by leading scholars of the Middle East (and was later encouraged by such bodies as the Middle East Studies Association and this journal), so has the incorporation of scholarly insights from area studies been urged by leading political scientists as a prerequisite for revitalizing all of…
Unparallel Universes
Sceptical of the ideational and non-regional terms ruling the post-1993 one-state/two-state (1S2S) exchange about the Palestine/Israel question, this article is in two parts. Part I demonstrates that no Israeli-Jewish constituency exists to support a viable two-state solution while concurrently arguing that the breathtaking one-state vision—in the form of a secular-democratic or bi-national state—is equally unlikely to materialise. The sole empir…
The peace process and Israeli domestic politics in the 1990s
(2002). The peace process and Israeli domestic politics in the 1990s. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 34-48
The peace process and Israeli domestic politics in the 1990s
(2002). The peace process and Israeli domestic politics in the 1990s. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 34-48
Do Comparative and Regional Studies of Nationalism Intersect
The question behind this article evolved from two separate observations. While the expansion of comparative and cross-regional research has been actively promoted by leading scholars of the Middle East (and was later encouraged by such bodies as the Middle East Studies Association and this journal), so has the incorporation of scholarly insights from area studies been urged by leading political scientists as a prerequisite for revitalizing all of…
Palestine, Arabized Jews and the Elusive Consequences of Jewish and Arab National Formations
This article analyzes Jewish and Arab national formations by exploring dynamics surrounding their border-zone community of Arabized-Jews during the first half of the 20th century. As the internal composition of the Arab and Zionist-Jewish collectivities was not pre-ordained, their sociopolitical demarcations fluctuated as a consequence of domestic, regional and international developments. The Jewish and Arab national movements sometimes included …
Mizrahim, Abstracted
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMoshe BeharMoshe Behar is a lecturer in Middle Eastern studies in the school of languages, linguistics, and cultures at the University of Manchester, U.K. His most recent article is ""Palestine, Arabized Jews, and the Elusive Consequences of Jewish and Arab National Formations,"" Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 13, no. 4 (2007), pp. 581––611
Across Nationalisms
If nations are non-preordained configurations of socio-political collectivities then they cement – or fragment – as a consequence of two core sets of on-the-ground interactions: those taking place within a national movement among contending intra-national constituents; and those taking place between competing national movements, typically over territory. A third set of on-the-ground socio-political interactions has received less attention in the …
What's in a name? Socio-terminological formations and the case for 'Arabized-Jews
Until the conclusion of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, there were roughly 750,000 Jews living in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria and Palestine/Israel. A comparative electronic survey of some 900 journals reveals that when scholars referred to these individuals collectively during the last 200 years they employed some twenty different signifiers. The question I address is simple yet potentially foundational: which …
Unparallel Universes
Sceptical of the ideational and non-regional terms ruling the post-1993 one-state/two-state (1S2S) exchange about the Palestine/Israel question, this article is in two parts. Part I demonstrates that no Israeli-Jewish constituency exists to support a viable two-state solution while concurrently arguing that the breathtaking one-state vision—in the form of a secular-democratic or bi-national state—is equally unlikely to materialise. The sole empir…
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politic…
The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
While the vast scholarly fields of modern Jewish thought and modern Jewish intellectual history effectively include no texts by Jews who are of non-European origin, the domain of modern Middle Eastern intellectual history includes no writings by native Middle Eastern Jews. Aiming to help remedy this dual void, this article presents the core premises and argumentation of several pre-1936 Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals. In filling in some of t…
The birth of the Mizrahi–Ashkenazi controversy
The question was simple: should the Hebraist Zionist movement in Ottoman Palestine invest in publishing a newspaper in Arabic and, if yes, should it be communitarian Jewish or general in its topics? What began as yet another obscure intra-Zionist deliberation gradually crystallized into what I argue merits the label of the earliest, explicitly Ashkenazi–Mizrahi ethnic controversy. This is with the smallest risk of the superimposition in hindsight…
Fusing Arab Nahda , European Haskalah and Euro-Zionism
Exactly 100 years ago, after local Ottoman representatives had raised the white flag, General Edmund Allenby, commander of Britain’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force, entered the Old City of Jerusalem
Entanglements
The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism - whether intentionally or not - has had the effect of separating antisemitism from other forms of racism. Of the eleven illustrations that the IHRA definition marshals to exemplify antisemitism, seven relate to post-1948 Israel. As a result, the Zionist/Arab matrix dominates the definition, and the examples come across as concerned more with the protection of Israel than the protection of Jews, let alo…
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