The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas
344 pages, 6 x 9
6 b&w illus.
Hardcover
Release Date:17 Dec 2024
ISBN:9781477330401
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas
A Comparative Approach
Edited by Nahum Karlinsky
University of Texas Press
A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.
Nahum Karlinsky is a visiting associate professor at Boston University’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of several books and the coauthor with Mustafa Kabha of The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850–1950.
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction. Exile, Diaspora, Transnationalism: Israeli, Palestinian, and Other Diasporas in Comparative Perspective (Nahum Karlinsky and Amal Jamal)
- Part I. Palestinians, Israelis, and Other Migrants: Between Exile and Diaspora
- 1. The Israeli Diaspora: A Socio-Demographic Portrait (Uzi Rebhun)
- 2. Exiled in Their Homeland: The Case of the Naqab Arab Bedouins (Safa Aburabia)
- 3. Why Are These Immigrants Different from All Other Immigrants? The Uniqueness of the Israeli Diaspora in American Jewish History (Jonathan D. Sarna)
- Part II. Berlin: A Transnational Haven?
- 4. A Murder in Kreuzberg: The Death of the Turk and the Diasporization of Migrants from Turkey (Meltem Toksöz and Utku Balaban)
- 5. Queer Israelis in Berlin: The Other Story of Israeli Emigration (Hila Amit)
- 6. Sex and the City in Berlin: Female Jewish Israeli Immigrants between Heteronormativity and Singlehood (Hadas Cohen)
- Part III. Diasporic and Transnational Art
- 7. Secret Codes: Symbolic Language in Iranian Art and in the Iranian Diaspora (Sheida Soleimani)
- 8. Palestinian Writings in the World: A Polylingual Literary Category Between Local and Transnational Realms (Maurice Ebileeni)
- Part IV. The Economies of Transnationalism
- 9. They Are Not All the Same: Immigrant Enterprises, Transnationalism, and Development (Alejandro Portes and Brandon P. Martinez)
- 10. The Diaspora Advantage for Entrepreneurship (Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff)
- 11. Work, Identity, and Communal Life Among Israeli Emigrants: A Comparison of Enclave and Infotech Entrepreneurs (Steven J. Gold)
- Part V. Autobiographical Reflections
- 12. Alejandro Portes, a Scholarly Life: The Personal, the Scholarly, and the Enduring (Interview by Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff)
- 13. Writing in the Diaspora (Omer Bartov)
- 14. Reflections of a Palestinian Israeli Self-Exile: Interview by Nahum Karlinsky (Sayed Kashua)
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
