Auteur: Orit Bashkin

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2, 500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylo …

Between 1949 and 1951, 123, 000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit c …

Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants—these images became common at the turn of the 2 …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these w …

Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is a …