The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas

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Edited by Nahum Karlinsky

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A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.

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List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction. Exile, Diaspora, Transnationalism: Israeli, Palestinian, and Other Diasporas in Comparative Perspective (Nahum Karlinsky and Amal Jamal) Part I. Palestinians, Israelis, and Other Migrants: Between Exile and Diaspora

• 1. The Israeli Diaspora: A Socio-Demographic Portrait (Uzi Rebhun)
• 2. Exiled in Their Homeland: The Case of the Naqab Arab Bedouins (Safa Aburabia)
• 3. Why Are These Immigrants Different from All Other Immigrants? The Uniqueness of the Israeli Diaspora in American Jewish History (Jonathan D. Sarna) Part II. Berlin: A Transnational Haven?
• 4. A Murder in Kreuzberg: The Death of the Turk and the Diasporization of Migrants from Turkey (Meltem Toksöz and Utku Balaban)
• 5. Queer Israelis in Berlin: The Other Story of Israeli Emigration (Hila Amit)
• 6. Sex and the City in Berlin: Female Jewish Israeli Immigrants between Heteronormativity and Singlehood (Hadas Cohen) Part III. Diasporic and Transnational Art
• 7. Secret Codes: Symbolic Language in Iranian Art and in the Iranian Diaspora (Sheida Soleimani)
• 8. Palestinian Writings in the World: A Polylingual Literary Category Between Local and Transnational Realms (Maurice Ebileeni) Part IV. The Economies of Transnationalism
• 9. They Are Not All the Same: Immigrant Enterprises, Transnationalism, and Development (Alejandro Portes and Brandon P. Martinez)
• 10. The Diaspora Advantage for Entrepreneurship (Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff)
• 11. Work, Identity, and Communal Life Among Israeli Emigrants: A Comparison of Enclave and Infotech Entrepreneurs (Steven J. Gold) Part V. Autobiographical Reflections
• 12. Alejandro Portes, a Scholarly Life: The Personal, the Scholarly, and the Enduring (Interview by Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff)
• 13. Writing in the Diaspora (Omer Bartov)
• 14. Reflections of a Palestinian Israeli Self-Exile: Interview by Nahum Karlinsky (Sayed Kashua) Afterword Contributors Index