War and Nationalism: Sephardim/Mizrahim in Between

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This panel presents how different wars, spurred by Nationalism, affected Sephardim/Mizrahim and their ideas. Two of the papers discuss how WWI (one of the themes for the division this year given the 100 commemoration of WWI's beginning) set in motion events that influenced Sephardim/Mizrahim and their ideas and experiences in Israel and in their countries of origin. One paper focuses on how Jewish and Arab nationalisms post 1948 resulted in the migration of Arab Jews to Israel and studies the uses of the term "refugee" to describe them.

Sub Unit

• Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies

Chair

• Devi Mays, University of Michigan

Individual Presentations

• A Tale of Segregation: The Story of Sephardic-Mizrahi Settlements in Colonial Palestine - Yehuda Sharim, Rice University

• Defining Displacement: The Politics of Arab Jewish Refugee Discourse - Shayna Zamkanei, University of Chicago

• Jews of the East and Zionism: A.S. Yahuda in Spain and a lesson from WWI - Saeko Yazaki, The University of Glasgow

• Being an Ottoman Citizen in a Time of Ambivalence: The Case of Jewish Immigrants during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire - Yeliz Baloglu Cengay, Brandeis University