Global Women, Colonial Ports is a transnational history of state-regulated prostitution in the
Middle East and North Africa between the two world wars. Beginning with international …

What makes Israeli law Israeli? Why is the word'Jewish'almost entirely absent from Israeli
legislation? How did Israel succeed in eluding a futile and dangerous debate over identity …

This article discusses the emergence of a circle of Sephardi intellectuals in Haifa in the final
years of the Ottoman era and examines their characteristics as Arabic-speaking Jews, who …

Ethnic affiliation dominated the urban ecology of both the old walled cities of Ottoman
Palestine and the country's newer and smaller cities with mixed populations (Muslims, Jews …

This article seeks to examine the impact of the transition from Yishuv to state on the
Sephardi and Mizrahi leadership, as reflected in the patterns of organization and action of …