September 1992
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21 Reads
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358 Citations
The Journal of American Folklore
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September 1992
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21 Reads
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358 Citations
The Journal of American Folklore
... Thus, in order to maintain the differentiation between Zionism and the rest of the Arab cultures and heritage, a binary distinction was constructed between Mizrahi-Jews and Arabs (Shohat 1988). The process of the de-Arabization of the Mizrahi Jews lead to cultural segregation that was enforced in order to blur any possible Jewish-Arab definition/identification (Hochberg 2007;Shenhav and Hever 2012), while strengthening the cultural heritage that evolved from the Holocaust and the wars in the Middle East and constructing them as a powerful contrasting heritage in relation to that of the Arabs (Handelman 1998;Handelman and Katz 1998;Yonah et al. 2010). The project of de-Arabization had a double effect with regards to issues of cultural heritage: it promised the Mizrahi group full integration into the Israeli national heritage and identity, and at the same time it created and reproduced the hierarchy between the Mizrahi cultural heritage and that of Zionism. ...
September 1992
The Journal of American Folklore