The Jewish Contribution to Civilization Discourse: An Egyptian-Jewish Appropriation in the 1940s

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Zutot Pub Date : 2021-03-31 DOI:10.1163/18750214-BJA10010

Lucia Admiraal

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Abstract

The idea of the Jewish contribution to civilization is generally understood as a Western counter-discourse that, often expressed in response to anti-Semitism, aims to change attitudes towards Jews. My examination of the appropriation of this idea by the Egyptian-Jewish writer Alfred Yallouz in the early 1940s proposes that he embedded it in his national and regional politics of Jewish cultural reform. Here, it served the aim of promoting Jewish belonging to Arab society by addressing historical Jewish contributions to Arab culture, and connecting these to Arab-Jewish relations in the present.

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犹太人对文明话语的贡献：20世纪40年代埃及犹太人的挪用

犹太人对文明做出贡献的观点通常被理解为西方的反话语，通常是对反犹太主义的回应，旨在改变对犹太人的态度。我对埃及裔犹太作家阿尔弗雷德·亚卢兹(Alfred Yallouz)在20世纪40年代早期挪用这一观点的研究表明，他将这一观点融入了犹太文化改革的国家和地区政治中。在这里，它的目的是通过讲述历史上犹太人对阿拉伯文化的贡献，并将这些贡献与现在的阿拉伯-犹太人关系联系起来，促进犹太人属于阿拉伯社会。

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Zutot HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. The Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. The Zutot covers Jewish culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines—literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history—and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.