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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included.
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"This extraordinary volume brings together some of the deepest thinkers working in the fields of colonialism and Jewish history today, to wrestle not simply with the old canard of whether colonialism was good or bad for the Jews, but rather with more contemporary and elusive concerns like the distinction between colonial discourse and practice, the liminal spaces between colonizer and colonized, a
Emily Gottreich, author of The Mellah of Marrakesh
"This nuanced and thoughtful collection opens up the study of Jews and colonialism, for the first time, to comprehensive scholarly scrutiny. Building on much new work on North Africa and the Middle East-and drawing on British, French, German, Polish and Russian sources-the volume addresses head-on the disputable place of Jews in colonial history and of colonialism in Jewish history. The collection
Bryan Cheyette, author of Diasporas of the Mind
"This important volume raises questions that only come up when views from several different research traditions are juxtaposed: in this case Jewish history with general history and also issues linking Jewish history in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa...The contributors are recognized scholars in their respective fields."
Harvey Goldberg, author of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries
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- SeriesModern Jewish Experience