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Enemies, a Love Story: Mizrahi-Arab-Ashkenazi Relations Since the Dawn of Zionism
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General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesIsrael & Palestine History
ISBN13: 9780271099958
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
Originally published in Hebrew in 2021, Hillel Cohen's Enemies, a Love Story argues that to understand the ongoing conflict in Palestine/Israel we need to examine the interactions among three identity groups: Mizrahim, Ashkenazim, and Arabs. Refusing to treat Jewish society as a monolith, Cohen shows how the ethnic divide between Ashkenazim (Jews of European descent) and Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern origin) can inform and complicate how we view the wider picture of nationalism, religiosity, and oppression in this part of the world.
Cohen considers how and why Ashkenazi-Arab and Mizrahi-Arab relations have metamorphosed over time, from the final decades of the Ottoman Empire into the Mandate period, from the Nakba and its aftermath to the Six Day War of 1967, and from the political upheaval of the 1970s to the rise of the right-wing Likud party and the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. The author challenges widespread beliefs that Mizrahi is synonymous with rigid nationalism and Ashkenazi with progressivism and support for reconciliation, showing how religiosity and socioeconomic status have shaped Israeli attitudes toward Palestinians.
Readers interested in Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East should find tremendous value in this timely book on a sensitive issue.
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