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...Smadar Lavie This paper analyzes the failure of Israel’s Ashkenazi (Jewish, of European, Yiddish-speaking origin) feminist peace movement to work within the context of Middle East demographics, cultures, and histories and, alternately, the inabilities of the Mizrahi (Oriental) feminist movement...

...Adi Kuntsman Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture . Lavie Smadar . New York : Berghahn , 2014 . 216 pages. isbn 9781782382225 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Smadar Lavie’s Wrapped...

... discrimination (against Mizrahim in general and against Mizrahi girls in particular) presents a special case of exclusionary social practices in the context of the Middle East. It owes its motivating and legitimizing force to social constructions exhibiting a unique reproduction of the dichotomy between...

... these events as spatially and politically interconnected. Shohat critically challenges studies of the Middle East that spatialize the Palestinian question as “outside” Israel and the Mizrahi question as “inside” Israel through the deliberate crossing of various disciplinary, geographic, and historical borders...

.... In addition, temple activists are always provided with heavily armed police escorts who “protect” them from Muslim worshippers. As is the case in many of Israel’s hotspot military checkpoints in the West Bank, the Haram ash-Sharif is predominantly policed by Mizrahi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, and Druze...

... Rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, and the influential Ashkenazi Rabbi Shakh. In its 1984 national election campaign, Shas’s mobilization efforts fo- cused on Haredi Mizrahi Jews who were discriminated against in ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi educational, religious, and political in- stitutions (Tessler 2003, 77 – 8...

... that can be afforded to the movements. While Ben Shitrit does call this into view, it is hard not to be aware of these differences when confronted with the types of activism available to women in each movement (e.g., martyrdom). Ben Shitrit’s own identity as a Mizrahi Jew adds an interesting facet...

... Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Erratum for Adi Kuntsman, review of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture , by Smadar Lavie, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 12, no. 2 (2016): 264–66 . On page...

... .” In Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times , edited by Zohar Zion , 216 – 37 . New York : New York University Press . Shohat Ella . 2006 . Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Stillman Norman A. 1991...

.... These stakes are the cultivation of racial divides and animus. Baldwin’s remarks are evocative of, as Ella Shohat, Orit Bashkin, Bryan Roby, and Aziza Khazzoom have shown, the reality that, in immigrating to Israel, Mizrahi Jews came to live in a state founded primarily by Ashkenazi Zionists who were...

... that retraditionalization among women classified as Western tends to be unconscious and unmarked, while that among women classified as Eastern tends to be conscious and marked. If so, it is likely that Israelis overestimate Mizrahi/Ashkenazi and Palestinian/Jewish differences in the promotion of potentially restrictive...

... and public services faced by Palestinians as a whole. She also shows how other feminist groups, such as Mizrahi groups or Jewish groups, tend not to be as community oriented, because they do not face the same level of discrimination as Palestinians. Connected to the role of Palestinians in such programs...

... and antioccupation initiatives and collaboration. It lays out the nuanced texture of Israeli feminist peace activism, describing the internal criticisms raised by Mizrahi and Palestinian-Israelis against the Ashkenazi elitism in the women’s peace movement, and the transformations in this movement since the 1990s...

... . Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture . New York : Berghahn . Loudiy Fadoua . 2014 . Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Morocco: Negotiating the Years of Lead . London : Routledge . Le matin . 2016 . “ Rencontre avec Aïcha Ech-Channa, un...

... with their male spouses, one of whom was also a medical-school graduate. In two other cases, we interviewed a couple (both graduates) separately. There were fourteen interviewees of European Jewish origin, one Mizrahi Jew, four African guest students, and five Palestinian citizens of Israel. Three were born...

... the sovereign state of Israel. Lastly, the republican discourse is used to legitimize different positions occupied by the major Jewish groups, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi, men and women, with the innermost group enjoying not only liberal and ethno-nationalist rights, but also the privileges of republican citi...