Moshe Naor
Moshe Naor is assistant professor in the department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Social Mobilization in the Arab/Israeli War of 1948: On the Israeli Home Front.
Menu
Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social, and cultural mediators between Jews and Arabs. Integrating Mandatory Palestine and its inhabitants into the contemporary Semitic-Levantine surroundings, Oriental Neighbors illuminates broad areas of cooperation and coexistence, which coincided with conflict and friction, between Oriental and Sephardi Jews and their Arab neighbors. The book brings the Oriental Jewish community to the fore, examines its role in the Zionist nation-building process, and studies its diverse and complex links with the Arab community in Palestine.
Moshe Naor is assistant professor in the department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Social Mobilization in the Arab/Israeli War of 1948: On the Israeli Home Front.
Abigail Jacobson is the academic director of the Mediterranean Neighbors program, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She is the author of From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule.
Founded in 1971, Brandeis University Press is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to publishing innovative, high-quality books for a general audience, as well as scholarship that advances knowledge and promotes dialogue in the humanities, arts, and social sciences around the world.
© Copyright 2024, Brandeis University Press
Brandeis University Press
Goldfarb Library 69-235, MS 046
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453
(781) 736-4547
pressinfo@brandeis.edu
Stay up to date with the newest titles and promotions from Brandeis University Press—while saving 20% on your first purchase.
