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This lecture will discuss the characteristics of the Arab-Jewish identity that existed in the Arab countries in general, and in Palestine in particular, during the British Mandate period. The lecture will also examine the manner in which the absorption in Israel of the Jews from the Arab countries influenced the development of this hybrid cultural identity, and will consider whether an Arab-Jewish identity exists in modern-day Israel.

Moshe Naor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. His main research interests focus on the history of the Jewish Community in Palestine and the State of Israel, the history of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, Arab Jewish Relations, and War and Society. He is the author of: Social Mobilization in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948: On the Israeli Home Front (Routledge, 2013). His book, written together with Dr. Abigail Jacobson, Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, was published in 2016 by Brandeis University Press. The book Oriental Neighbors won the Shapiro Award of the Association for Israel Studies for the Best Book in Israel Studies.

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program/Leon Black Lecture Series