Enemies, a Love Story by Hillel Cohen, Haim Watzman - 9780271099897

Enemies, a Love StoryMizrahi-Arab-Ashkenazi Relations Since the Dawn of Zionism\nAuthor(s): Hillel Cohen, Haim Watzman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271099897, 978-0271099897\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in Hebrew in 2021, Hillel Cohens Enemies, a Love Story argues that to understand the ongoing conflict in Palestine/Israel we need to examine the interactions among three identity groups: Mizrahim, Ashkenazim, and Arabs. Refusing to treat Jewish society as a monolith, Cohen shows how the ethnic divide between Ashkenazim (Jews of European descent) and Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern origin) can inform and complicate how we view the wider picture of nationalism, religiosity, and oppression in this part of the world. \n\nCohen considers how and why Ashkenazi-Arab and Mizrahi-Arab relations have metamorphosed over time, from the final decades of the Ottoman Empire into the Ma.