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Caught between Orientalism and Aryanism, exile and homeland: The Jews of Iran in Zionist/Israeli imagination.

This article provides a first-of-a-kind examination of Zionism and the Jewish state's shifting and unstable perceptions of Iranian Jewry, a particularly important Mizrahi group that has not yet received the attention it deserves in critical scholarship. By focusing on Iranian Jewry as objects of the...

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Published in:HAGAR: Studies in Culture, Polity & Identities Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 83 - 112
Main Author: Ram, Haggai
Format: Article
Published: Ben Gurion University Summer 2008
Subjects:
Jews
Iran
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