Reuven Snir
List of John Benjamins publications in which Reuven Snir is involved.
Articles
2006 “A Carbon Copy of Ibn al-Balad ”? The Participation of Egyptian Jews in Modern Arab Culture Archív Orientální 74:1, pp. 37–64 | Article
Egypt is considered to be one of the few countries in which Arab culture flourished among the Jews, in both the popular and the canonical fields. Some of Jews, such as Yacqūb Ṣanūc (James Sanua) (1839-1912), Togo Mizraḥī (1901-1987), and Laylā Murād (1918-1995), rose to prominence. However, on the… read more
2006 “Anā min al-Yahūd”: The Demise of Arab-Jewish Culture in the Twentieth Century Archív Orientální 74:4, pp. 387–424 | Article
In the wake of the national and political conflict in the Middle East, Arab-Jewish culture has undergone a process of marginalization and negligence, as well as a gradual descent into utter oblivion, owing to both Arab-Muslim and Hebrew-Jewish-Zionist national and cultural systems. Both sides, each… read more