Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?

Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities

Bibliographic Data

ID23545654
AuthorsReuven Snir (0000-0002-4505-2918)
Year2015
Pages302
Publication date2015-02-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWho needs Arab-Jewish identity? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004289109
OpenAlexW4243692597
ISBN9789004289109
Open LibraryOL31064696M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

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 and then in Israel, led to the fragmentation of their original identities and encouraged them to find refuge in inessential solidarities. Following double exclusion, intense globalization, and contemporary fluidity of identities, singularity, not identity, has become the major war cry among Arabized Jews during the last decade in our present liquid society. "In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Reuven Snir brings out an important contribution to studies of the history, literature and identity of Arabized Jews, showing the significant shifts these communities have undergone in the ways their identities have been defined and constructed in the modern period." - Lisa Bernasek, University of Southampton, in: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 18.2 (2019)

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