Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos [Sección de Hebreo]
Angaben zur Quelle:
70 (2021) 169-190
Keywords:
Derwish, Shalom,
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Derwish, Shalom, Criticism and interpretation
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Jews History 20th century
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Jewish authors Biography
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Jews, Iraqi Biography
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Short stories, Arabic History and criticism
Abstract:
As an integral part of Arab society since the pre-Islamic period, Jews participated in the making of Arabic literature. We know of prom-inent Jewish poets such as al-Samawʾal ibn ʿᾹdiyāʾ in the sixth century A.D. and Ibrāhīm ibn Sahl in al-Andalus in the thirteenth century. During the first half of the twentieth century, Arabic literature in fuṣḥā (standard Arabic) written by Jews witnessed a great revival, es-pecially in Iraq and Egypt, but this revival was cut short as a casualty of Zionism and Arab na-tionalism and the conflict between them. We are currently witnessing the demise of Arabic literature written by Jews; the Arabic language among Jews will probably remain mostly a tool of the military establishment and the intel-ligence systems as encapsulated in the dictum 'know your enemy' instead of being a medium for coexistence and knowing the Other. The article concentrates on the literary activities of one of the most talented Iraqi-Jewish au-thors, Shalom Darwīsh (1913-1997), whose promising anticipated literary future in Arabic literature encountered a deadlock following the aforementioned exclusion of Jews from 'Arabness'.
DOI:
10.30827/meahhebreo.v70.22580
URL:
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