The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity
Yehouda Shenhav
2003
Some time ago, as I sat down to work in a Tel Aviv café in the area where I live, an elderly man suddenly approached me. “You are the son of Eliahu Shaharabani, of blessed memory,” he said, half stating a fact, half asking. I looked at the man standing in front of me. I had never seen him before. He was handsome, about seventy years old, and spoke…
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