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We look like the enemy : the hidden story of Israel's Jews from Arab lands / Rachel Shabi.
Van Pelt Library DS113.8.S4 S53 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shabi, Rachel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ashkenazim--Israel--Social conditions.
- Ashkenazim.
- Mizrahim--Israel--Social conditions.
- Mizrahim.
- Ashkenazim--Israel--History.
- Mizrahim--Israel--History.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Israel--Ethnic relations.
- Israel.
- Ethnic relations.
- Mizrahim--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker & Co., 2010.
- Summary:
- Evaluates the prevalence of what the author terms ethnic bias against Middle Eastern Jewish residents in Israel as well as the implications of such prejudice, specifically the tension between the Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Veiling Its Face 7
- Chapter 2 Meet the Family 25
- Chapter 3 Development Towns 51
- Chapter 4 Babylon Calling 76
- Chapter 5 Talk This Way 106
- Chapter 6 Everyone Deserves Music 135
- Chapter 7 Made to Fail 157
- Chapter 8 The Ethnic Demon 185
- Chapter 9 We Are Not Arabs! 217.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2008.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Sephardic Culture, Winner, 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780802717665
- 0802717667
- OCLC:
- 655679081
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