Reviews for After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture

The average rating for After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-08 00:00:00 Stephen Sallis Outstanding work! Alcalay covers a lot of ground: from 10th century to late 1980's of Sephardic or "Oriental Jewish" life, from the first Hebrew secular lyric to Iraqi Jewish Communist activists. I wish I knew about this book when a few years ago a friend who should've known better (a graduate student in Jewish history) claimed that other than Maimonides the Levantine Jews had not produced anyone intellectually notable. Alcalay shows that suppressing and ignoring a gigantic portion of Jews, within the Promised Land no less, does not help anyone involved. He ends with a hopeful note; I wonder if there's an afterword 17 years later.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-10 00:00:00 Melissa Laughlin Poetry for your eyes. Introductory essays by Alice Raphael offer insight and history on the spirituality in art.