Reclaiming the Arab Other as Self: Young Mizrahi Jews Singing in Arabic
Dr. Nadeem Karkabi (Gastprofessur für Arabisch - Israelische Koexistenz SoSe 2026)
24.06.2026 um 18:15 Uhr
In the last two decades, a growing number of young Mizrahi singers perform in Arabic. These performances are often an act of reclaiming ancestral cultural heritage, yet they also offer complex performances were the Jewish self is redefined vis-à-vis the Arab other. This lecture comes to explain the appearance of this phenomenon and describe its different performative formations, spanning on a spectrum of semantic, sentimental, and symbolic communication. The second half of the lecture will focus on "cultural hista'arvut" as a musical, lingual, and visual performance in which Mizrahi Jews imitate Arabs, as a derogative parody that aims to entertain Israeli Jews.
Veranstaltungsort: LMU Historicum, Schellingstraße 12, Raum K 001.
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