Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Masculinities
Bodies of Knowledge across Generations and Geographies
open access | peer reviewed
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- Piera Rossetto - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Hadas Shabat Nadir - Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts - email
- Aviad Moreno - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - email
Abstract
Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Masculinities: Bodies of Knowledge across Generations and Geographies examines how Jewish masculinities from the MENA region are formed, negotiated, and changed across time, places, and languages. Moving from the late Ottoman era through Israeli statehood to today’s diasporas, it shows how migration, displacement, and cultural translation reshape fatherhood, labour, queerness, and writing. Using gender studies, history, and literary analysis, the essays presents MENA Jewish masculinity as a mobile, embodied concept – reimagined across empires, memories, and geographies.
Keywords Bodies • Male marginalization • Third generation poets • Masculinity • Mobilities • Language • Mizrahi literature • Sephardic Studies • Troubadours’ scene • Zionism • Sabra myth • Decolonisation of Jewish Studies • Performance of identity • Ethnicities • Masculinities • Mizrahi masculinities • Postcolonial Studies • Moroccan immigrants • Sami Berdugo • Re-masculinization • Gender • Trauma • Narrative poetics • Oriental • Israeli Literature • Dror Mishani • Queer Mizrahim • Daughter • Mandate Palestine • Corporeality • 1950s Israel • Father • Grandfathers • Yoram Kaniuk • Sephardi-Mizrahi Jews • Mizrahi • Body • Fatherhood • Sabra • Ballads • Writing body • Haifa • Queer Studies • Abdellatif Kechiche • Jewish masculinities • Homosexuality in Israel • Thessaloniki • Mizrahi masculinity • Yehoshua Kenaz • Jewish-Israeli masculinity • Gay identity • Migration • Mizrahi poetry • Fathers
Thema codes JBSF2 • JBSL • NHTB • 5PGJ • 1FB
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-004-8 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-004-8 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-005-5 | Pubblicato 15 Dicembre 2025 | Lingua en
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