The Arab and Jewish Questions : : Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond / / ed. by Bashir Bashir, Leila Farsakh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Rustom, Hakem,; Anidjar, Gil,; Behar, Moshe,; Evri, Yuval,; Ghazal, Amal,; Klug, Brian,; Masarwi, Maram,; Penslar, Derek,; Rose, Jacqueline,; Shohat, Ella,
• HerausgeberIn: Bashir, Bashir,; Farsakh, Leila,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the “Jewish Question,” as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews as the ultimate other. With the onset of Zionism, this “question” migrated to Palestine and intensified under British colonial rule and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Zionism’s attempt to solve the “Jewish Question” created what came to be known as the “Arab Question,” which concerned the presence and rights of the Arab population in Palestine. For the most part, however, Jewish settlers denied or dismissed the question they created, to the detriment of both Arabs and Jews in Palestine and elsewhere.This book brings together leading scholars to consider how these two questions are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights. Together, the essays show that the Arab and Jewish questions, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which they have become subsumed, belong to the same thorny history. Despite their major differences, the historical Jewish and Arab questions are about the political rights of oppressed groups and their inclusion within exclusionary political communities—a question that continues to foment tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Shedding new light on the intricate relationships among Orientalism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, and the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book reveals the inseparability of Arab and Jewish struggles for self-determination and political equality.Contributors include Gil Anidjar, Brian Klug, Amal Ghazal, Ella Shohat, Hakem Al-Rustom, Hillel Cohen, Yuval Evri, Derek Penslar, Jacqueline Rose, Moshe Behar, Maram Masarwi, and the editors, Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction THREE QUESTIONS THAT MAKE ONE BASHIR BASHIR AND LEILA FARSAKH -- PART I Interrogating Europe Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Colonialism -- Chapter One JACKALS AND ARABS Once More on the German-Jewish Dialogue -- Chapter Two AN EMBLEMATIC EMBRACE New Europe, the Jewish State, and the Palestinian Question -- Chapter Three PALESTINE IN ALGERIA The Emergence of an Arab-Islamic Question in the Interwar Period -- PART II Beyond the Binary Division Between “Jews” and “Arabs” Revisiting National Constructs -- Chapter Four ON ORIENTALIST GENEALOGIES The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited -- Chapter Five RETURNING TO THE QUESTION OF EUROPE From the Standpoint of the Defeated -- Chapter Six BETWEEN SHARED HOMELAND TO NATIONAL HOME The Balfour Declaration from a Native Sephardic Perspective -- Chapter Seven TOWARD A FIELD OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE STUDIES -- Chapter Eight APOCALYPSE/EMNITY/DIALOGUE Negotiating the Depths -- Chapter Nine COMPETING MARXISMS, CESSATION OF (SETTLER) COLONIALISM, AND THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE -- Chapter Ten DIALECTIC OF THE NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY AND ISRAELI SOCIETY Nationalism and Binationalism -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX