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The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry : culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora / Joel Beinin.

De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online

De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Public) Available online

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Public)
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Beinin, Joel, 1948- author.
Series:
Contraversions ; 11.
Contraversions ; 11
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Jews--Egypt--History--20th century.
Jews--Egypt--Politics and government.
Jews, Egyptian--Israel.
Karaites--Egypt.
Operation Susannah.
Egypt--Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 329 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1998]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
"In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central to Beinin's study is the question of how people handle multiple identities and loyalties that are dislocated and reformed by turbulent political and cultural processes. It is a question he grapples with himself, and his reflections on his experiences as an American Jew in Israel and Egypt offer a candid, personal perspective on the hazards of marginal identities."--pub. desc.
Contents:
Communitarianisms, nationalisms, nostalgias
Citizens, Dhimmis, and subversives
Nazis and spies: the discourse of operation Susannah
The graduates of ha-Shomer ha-Tzaʻir in Israel
The communist emigres in France
The Karaites of the San Francisco Bay area
The recovery of Egyptian Jewish identity
Opposing Camp David and remembering the Jews of Egypt: trends in recent Egyptian historical writing.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780520920217
052092021X
9780585130781
0585130787
OCLC:
1202625068

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