A new book looks at the ways in which ancient religious manuscripts belonging to Yemenite Jews, as well as thousands of books owned by Palestinians and Holocaust survivors became part of Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem.
How Jewish and Palestinian cultural artifacts became Israeli property
April 25, 2015 by Leave a Comment
No such thing as ‘half-and-half’: On mixed Mizrahi-Ashkenazi identity
June 29, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By Itamar Toby (Taharlev) (Translated from Hebrew by Maayan Goldman) The melting pot’s favorite category, ‘mixed,’ doesn’t pass the test of reality: in Israel, banal characteristics like one’s last name, appearance and place of residence, continue to dictate one’s opportunities in life and create an ethnic identity, concerning both class and culture. On Talia Sagiv’s book […]
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