Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media / edited by Brahim El Guabli and Mostafa Hussein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guabli, Brahim El, editor.

Hussein, Mostafa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Jewish-Arab relations in literature.

Jewish-Arab relations in motion pictures.

Loss (Psychology) in literature.

Loss (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Arab countries.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years following 1948. Drawing on the remarkable cinematic and literary output of the last twenty years, this collection posits loss as a new conceptual framework in which to understand Jewish-Muslim relations. Previous studies of Jewish emigration have followed the mass departure of Jews, but the contributors to this book choose to remain behind and trace the contours of Jewish absence in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern societies. Attuned to loss in this way, the cultural memories of Jewish-Muslim life transcend the narratives of turmoil, taboo, and nostalgia that have dominated Muslim and prevalent scholarly perspectives on Jewish emigration.Read as a whole, the collection affords an uncommon opportunity to mourn and heal through a nuanced reckoning with the absence of Jews from communities in which they had lived for millennia. Its wide geographic reach and interdisciplinary nature will speak both to scholars and lay readers in Amazigh studies, Arabic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Jewish studies, memory studies, and a host of other disciplines.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla, Abdelkader Aoudjit, İlker Hepkaner, Sarah Irving, Stephanie Kraver, Lital Levy, Nadia Sabri, and Lior B. Sternfeld.

Contents:

Generative absence : Jewish loss as a catalyst for literature, film, and thought / Brahim El Guabli

On the wrong side of history : the Jews in Algerian literature / Abdelkader Aoujdit

Literary representations of Jews in twenty-first century Arabic literature in Egypt / Mostafa Hussein

Al-Zaman al Gamīl refigured : Jews and re-narration of the nation on Egyptian TV / Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla

Death, burial, and loss in Ali al-Muqri's Al-yahūdī al-ḥalī (The handsome Jew) / Sarah Irving

Bearing witness and resurrecting Arab-Jewish memory in Mādhā ʻan al-sayyida al-yahūdiyya rāḥīl? / Stephanie Kraver

Documenting and debating Turkey's loss / İlker Hepkaner

Exile in a contemporary artistic project in Morocco : Jewish memories in form and concrete territories / Nadia Sabri

Narrating the homeland from exile : Iranian Jewish writers writing on their departure, identity, and longing / Lior B. Sternfeld.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-271-09862-7

OCLC:

1452269523