'We Are All the Sons of Abraham'? Utopian Performativity for Jewish–Arab Coexistence in an Israeli Reform Jewish Mimouna Celebration
| Autor: | Ben-Lulu Elazar, Shem-Tov Naphtaly |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Open Cultural Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-25 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2451-3474 2024-0015 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/culture-2024-0015 |
| Popis: | Mimouna is a North-African Jewish festival, which in the past symbolized good neighborly relationships between Jews and Muslims. Today, however, this festival has transformed into a neutralized interfaith encounter, resembling a culinary-focused musical show. The particular event explored in this case study was organized by an Israeli Reform Jewish congregation, which is a non-Orthodox liberal Jewish denomination. In this event, the congregation strived to reconceptualize the diasporic concept of this festival. In effect, the performance is a cultural appropriation that reveals the failures to turn this tolerant vision into a current local political reality. The performance is constructed as a marketing script to brand Reform Judaism’s liberal ideology agenda and its sociopolitical position in Israeli society. The endeavor to establish the Mimouna as a safe space for fostering interreligious discourse and dialogue exposed its ideological vulnerability, thus bringing to the forefront the conflictual relationship between the Jewish and Muslim Arabs in Israel. |
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