Kahanof, Jacqueline

Mongrels or marvels: the Levantine writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahan…

by Kahanof, Jacqueline

fromStanford studies in Jewish history and culture

0 Type: Book

The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. This text embraces the idea of a pluralist, multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East wi…

During the second half of the twentieth century nationalist movements in the Middle East expressed the aspirations of colonized peoples. Revolutions for national liberation displaced communities and disrupted cosmopolitan patterns of co-existence. Nations imposed boundaries at o…