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Mizrahi Jews Flashcards

1
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In the 1990s, what % of upper income Israelis were Ashkenazi?

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88%

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2
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What fraction of Arab Jews went to Israel?

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Over 2/3

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3
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What fraction of Israeli Jews have MENA ancestry?

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1/3-1/2

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4
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Who has criticised the label “Arab Jew”?

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Ein-Gil and Machover

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5
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Who talked about the difficulty of pining down what it is to be Mizrahi?

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Actor Yosef Shiloh

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6
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What does Shenhav argue about ethnic collectivities?

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No clear boundaries - clear from discursive movement from category Sephardic to Mizrahim via oriental communities

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7
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What does Shohat argue about the difficulties in terminology?

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Terminological crisis

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8
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What does Shohat argue about the circumstances under which AJ left?

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Can’t homogenise reasons why they left

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9
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When do many Yemenites arrive?

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1906-08

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10
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Who argues that Mizrahim have always been proportion to their share of world Jewry?

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Peled - 10%

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11
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What distinction did Zionism make with its immigrants?

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Between quality and quantity - idealistic workers vs foot soldiers of the Zionism campaign - quality to quantitative efforts

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12
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What happened in 1941?

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Farhoud Riots

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13
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How many died in the Farhoud riots - where were they?

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  1. Basra and Baghdad
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14
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What did the Iraqi government introduce in 1950?

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Denial of citizenship to those registering to emigrate

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15
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How many left Iraq?

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120,000/140,000

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16
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What suggests bitterness at the forced expulsion of Iraqi Jews?

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Shenhav - when two Zionist activists are hanged, applauded by many in transit camps - god’s revenge

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17
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How many Jews were in Egypt?

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80,000

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18
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What suggests that most Arab Jews in Egypt weren’t so embedded in Egyptian culture?

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Most had colonial passports

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19
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What made the Jewish country in Egypt suspicious?

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Lavon spying affair in 1854

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20
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What was proposed in the 1930s? P

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Iraq/Palestine population transfer

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21
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Who tried to use Jewish property in Iraq against Palestinian demands for compensation?

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Foreign minister Shertok

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22
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What was the purpose of the Sharon Plan?

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Deal with underpopulation - use Arab Jews to populate sparsely populated areas.

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23
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What fraction of army commanders have been Mizrahi?

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4/6

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24
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Who argues that in Israel the class struggle in an ethnic struggle?

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Ram

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25
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In what schools was there ethnic separation?

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Beit Ydakov girls’ schools

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26
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What’s the word for rabbinical emissaries?

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Shadarut

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27
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What was the contradictory approach taken towards mixrahim’s religiosity?

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Shenhav - from colonial point of view religiosity superficial, from national, was ancient and authentic

28
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What does Kimmerling argue became integral to collective memory and identity?

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Side-locks cut, no prayer, no skull caps

29
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What opportunities were presented by religion according to Shenhav?

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No choice but to be religious in odds to have a voice in the Zionist discourse

30
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How have Shafir and Peled describe the citizenship of the Mizrahim?

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Second class social citizenship - struggle to possess and master the rights they formally hold

31
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How many lived in DTs by 2000?

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800,000

32
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What percentage interviews thought that DTs were discriminated against relative to kibbutz?

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72%

33
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Who takes a neo-Marxist POV, Arguing Mizrahim were settled in DTS as a source of cheap labour for rapidly growing economy?

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Shafir and Peled

34
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Who wrote “under the ground”?

A

Eli Eliahu

35
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Who argues that Mizrahim were ostracised to a cultural ghetto?

A

Mendelson-Maoz

36
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Who wrote about musical discrimination ?

A

Regev and Seroussi

37
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WHo has written on the discrimination faced by Mizrahi women?

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Dahan-Keller

38
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What does Chetrit call those who works with the Israeli authorities?

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Identifier collaborators

39
Q

Who two means were there to penetrate the government?

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Ashkenaziation and tokenism

40
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Who argues that modern and more secular Jews often prospered?

A

Ben-rafael

41
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Who argues the government did their best?

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Adler

42
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Who wrote an infamous 1949 article in Ha’aretz?

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Arye Gelblum

43
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Whose study focuses on portrayals of Mizrahi in films?

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Arrakam

44
Q

What happened in summer 1949?

A

Demonstration of 300 to TLV from Ramle

45
Q

When was Wadi salib?

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1959

46
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How many acts of protest were there in DTs between 1960-95?

A

345

47
Q

In which election rally was rhetoric particularly venomous?

A

1981

48
Q

Name a famous Mizrahi poet

A

Sami Michael

49
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What do Shafir and Peled argue about the shift in voting patterns in 1977?

A

Result of combination of structural and ideological factors - structural changes in economy, reduced dependency on LSM institutions for employment and social services, new generation of voters, government induced recession (mitun), flow of Arab workers, failure in wars

50
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By how many votes did Begin win?

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10,000

51
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How many seats did Mizrahi give Likud in 1977?

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32/43

52
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Which two historians hav focussed on Shas?

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Lehman and siebzehner

53
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who emphasises shas’s hybridity?

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Tessler

54
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In which election campaign did Shas play the ethnic card?

A

1999

55
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How many seats did Shas win in 1999?

A

17

56
Q

Who argues that Mizrahi Jews could be key to settling a comprehensive peace?

A

Behar

57
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In 2003, what % voted right-wing compared to 56% statewide?

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74.5%

58
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What percentage support population transfer?

A

12%

59
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What percentage of settlers are first or second generational Mizrahi?

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40%

60
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Who have attributed right wing popularity to tendency to appeal to irrational and traditional cultures?

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Shamir and Aran

61
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Why do Yiftachel and Tzfadie argue Mizrahi vote right wing?

A

Settler society - nationalism as political capital

62
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What percentage define themselves as Zionist?

A

95%

63
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What group campaigns for Mizrahi rights?

A

Mizrahi democratic rainbow

64
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What percentage of a 4000 page Zionist history book was devoted to the history of the AJ?

A

2.5%

65
Q

Whose slogan in the 1980s was “stand tall”?

A

Tami

66
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What book focuses on the trauma of the transit camp?

A

Ballas’s The Transit Camp 1964

67
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Who argues that socioeconomic disadvantages today are the result of class not ethnicity?

A

Ein-Gil and Machover

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