Double-Diaspora in the Literature and Film of Arab Jews

• Main Author: Schwartz, Stephanie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Jewish; diaspora; Naim Kattan; Zionism; b.h. Yael; Karin Albou; Sami Michael; Arab Jew; Mizrahi; Babylon; Canada; sami
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20690

Inspired by the contrapuntal and relational critiques of Edward Said and Ella Shohat, this thesis conducts a comparative analysis of the literature and film of Arab Jews in order to deconstruct discourses on Jewish identity that privilege the dichotomies of Israel-diaspora and Arab-Jew. Sami Michael...