Notes to an Old–New Debate

Shimon Ballas

1965

Many people believe that the question of “the mingling of the diasporas” will be resolved in the workplace, in the mixed neighborhood, in school, etc. oriental [Mizrahi] Jews, they say, who acquire professional training in the industrial plant as a result improve their standard of living and acquire knowledge and culture—which can be an important…

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Shimon Ballas

1930–2019

Shimon Ballas—author, translator, and editor—was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel in 1951 at the age of twenty-one, later earning a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne in Paris. Ballas wrote articles and criticism in Arabic and taught Arabic literature at Haifa University. He published several works of prose and nonfiction and served as editor of the journal Al Karmel. His first Hebrew novel, Ha-Ma‘abarah (The Transit Camp, 1964), is one of the first accounts of the harsh realities and struggles faced by immigrants settling in Israel in the 1950s. Ballas was awarded the President’s Prize in 2006.

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