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Levantinization
Levantinization is a term used in different contexts to describe "Levantine" (i.e. non-European) cultural influences in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, including in the Levant. The term often carries negative connotations (cf. Balkanization). Cornell University, Cornell professor Deborah Starr uses the term to describe the fear of change to Israeli culture during the Mizrahi Jews in Israel, influx of Mizrahi Jews in the 1950s, some of whom had arrived from Levant, Levantine countries. In other contexts, the term has sometimes been used in an Islamophobia, anti-Islamic context for the perceived "cultural contamination" of European values by "Social degeneration, degenerate Levantine influences". Srinivas Aravamudan describes it as "a strategic deformation of orientalism's representational mechanisms". Aravamudan writes that "levantinizations indicate that agency can be found in a number of guises and forms, sometimes within orientalism itself". Constantinople Lady Mary W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Kahanoff
Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (; ; May 18, 1917 – October 24, 1979) was an Egyptian-born Israeli novelist, essayist and journalist. Kahanoff wrote in English, although she is best known for a cycle of essays, “A Generation of Levantines,” that was published in Israel in Hebrew translation in 1959. These pieces lay out her notion of “Levantinism,” a social model of coexistence drawn from her childhood experiences in Egyptian cosmopolitan society in the interwar period. Biography Jacqueline Shohet was born in May 1917 in Cairo. Her father, Joseph Shohet, was an Iraqi Jew who had moved to Egypt as a child, while her mother, Yvonne Chemla, was born in Egypt to Tunisian Jewish parents. Her mother's family established the department store Chemla Frères. In 1940, Jacqueline Shohet moved to the United States with her first husband, Izzy Margoliash. After the marriage ended, she moved to New York where she earned a degree in journalism from Columbia University. In 1952 she married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |