TY - JOUR
T1 - Caribbean Zion
T2 - A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures
AU - Becke, Johannes
AU - Shilon, Avi
N1 - Funding Information:
We sincerely thank all the participants involved in this study for their invaluable contributions. We thank Dr. Saori Sakaue for supporting the study. This research was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (22H00476), the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED; JP21gm4010006, JP22km0405211, JP22ek0410075, JP22km0405217, and JP22ek0109594), JST Moonshot R&D (JPMJMS2021, JPMJMS2024), the Takeda Science Foundation, and Bioinformatics Initiative of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. K.S. was supported by the Takeda Science Foundation and Integrated Frontier Research for Medical Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - The article explores Jewish-Israeli cultures through the innovative prism of creolization, defined here as the contingent and dynamic process of transculturation between European Jews, Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Similar to the history of ethnogenesis in the Caribbean, Israeli society emerged from a process of colonization and immigration in a setting of geographic isolation, resulting in a contested process of ethnicization and indigenization. Based on case studies of Jewish-Israeli cultures (including food, language, and religious practices), the article argues for a periodization of Jewish-Israeli creolization. After a long period of intense interaction and creolization between Ashkenazi settler-immigrants and native Palestinian Arabs under Ottoman and British rule, Israel’s state-founding elites aimed at top-down Europeanization and decreolization after 1948. Since the rise of country’s right in the 1970s, Israeli society has been undergoing a process of renewed creolization between Ashkenazi Israeli and Mizrahi Israeli elements.
AB - The article explores Jewish-Israeli cultures through the innovative prism of creolization, defined here as the contingent and dynamic process of transculturation between European Jews, Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Similar to the history of ethnogenesis in the Caribbean, Israeli society emerged from a process of colonization and immigration in a setting of geographic isolation, resulting in a contested process of ethnicization and indigenization. Based on case studies of Jewish-Israeli cultures (including food, language, and religious practices), the article argues for a periodization of Jewish-Israeli creolization. After a long period of intense interaction and creolization between Ashkenazi settler-immigrants and native Palestinian Arabs under Ottoman and British rule, Israel’s state-founding elites aimed at top-down Europeanization and decreolization after 1948. Since the rise of country’s right in the 1970s, Israeli society has been undergoing a process of renewed creolization between Ashkenazi Israeli and Mizrahi Israeli elements.
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U2 - 10.1080/13530194.2022.2105814
DO - 10.1080/13530194.2022.2105814
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135213807
SN - 1353-0194
JO - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
JF - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
ER -
