Mizrahi Jews

Question 1

In the 1990s, what % of upper income Israelis were Ashkenazi?

Answer 1

88%

Question 2

What fraction of Arab Jews went to Israel?

Answer 2

Over 2/3

Question 3

What fraction of Israeli Jews have MENA ancestry?

Answer 3

1/3-1/2

Question 4

Who has criticised the label “Arab Jew”?

Answer 4

Ein-Gil and Machover

Question 5

Who talked about the difficulty of pining down what it is to be Mizrahi?

Answer 5

Actor Yosef Shiloh

Question 6

What does Shenhav argue about ethnic collectivities?

Answer 6

No clear boundaries - clear from discursive movement from category Sephardic to Mizrahim via oriental communities

Question 7

What does Shohat argue about the difficulties in terminology?

Answer 7

Terminological crisis

Question 8

What does Shohat argue about the circumstances under which AJ left?

Answer 8

Can’t homogenise reasons why they left

Question 9

When do many Yemenites arrive?

Answer 9

1906-08

Question 10

Who argues that Mizrahim have always been proportion to their share of world Jewry?

Answer 10

Peled - 10%

Question 11

What distinction did Zionism make with its immigrants?

Answer 11

Between quality and quantity - idealistic workers vs foot soldiers of the Zionism campaign - quality to quantitative efforts

Question 12

What happened in 1941?

Answer 12

Farhoud Riots

Question 13

How many died in the Farhoud riots - where were they?

Answer 13

180. Basra and Baghdad

Question 14

What did the Iraqi government introduce in 1950?

Answer 14

Denial of citizenship to those registering to emigrate

Question 15

How many left Iraq?

Answer 15

120,000/140,000

Question 16

What suggests bitterness at the forced expulsion of Iraqi Jews?

Answer 16

Shenhav - when two Zionist activists are hanged, applauded by many in transit camps - god’s revenge

Question 17

How many Jews were in Egypt?

Answer 17

80,000

Question 18

What suggests that most Arab Jews in Egypt weren’t so embedded in Egyptian culture?

Answer 18

Most had colonial passports

Question 19

What made the Jewish country in Egypt suspicious?

Answer 19

Lavon spying affair in 1854

Question 20

What was proposed in the 1930s? P

Answer 20

Iraq/Palestine population transfer

Question 21

Who tried to use Jewish property in Iraq against Palestinian demands for compensation?

Answer 21

Foreign minister Shertok

Question 22

What was the purpose of the Sharon Plan?

Answer 22

Deal with underpopulation - use Arab Jews to populate sparsely populated areas.

Question 23

What fraction of army commanders have been Mizrahi?

Answer 23

4/6

Question 24

Who argues that in Israel the class struggle in an ethnic struggle?

Answer 24

Ram

Question 25

In what schools was there ethnic separation?

Answer 25

Beit Ydakov girls' schools

Question 26

What's the word for rabbinical emissaries?

Answer 26

Shadarut

Question 27

What was the contradictory approach taken towards mixrahim's religiosity?

Answer 27

Shenhav - from colonial point of view religiosity superficial, from national, was ancient and authentic

Question 28

What does Kimmerling argue became integral to collective memory and identity?

Answer 28

Side-locks cut, no prayer, no skull caps

Question 29

What opportunities were presented by religion according to Shenhav?

Answer 29

No choice but to be religious in odds to have a voice in the Zionist discourse

Question 30

How have Shafir and Peled describe the citizenship of the Mizrahim?

Answer 30

Second class social citizenship - struggle to possess and master the rights they formally hold

Question 31

How many lived in DTs by 2000?

Answer 31

800,000

Question 32

What percentage interviews thought that DTs were discriminated against relative to kibbutz?

Answer 32

72%

Question 33

Who takes a neo-Marxist POV, Arguing Mizrahim were settled in DTS as a source of cheap labour for rapidly growing economy?

Answer 33

Shafir and Peled

Question 34

Who wrote "under the ground"?

Answer 34

Eli Eliahu

Question 35

Who argues that Mizrahim were ostracised to a cultural ghetto?

Answer 35

Mendelson-Maoz

Question 36

Who wrote about musical discrimination ?

Answer 36

Regev and Seroussi

Question 37

WHo has written on the discrimination faced by Mizrahi women?

Answer 37

Dahan-Keller

Question 38

What does Chetrit call those who works with the Israeli authorities?

Answer 38

Identifier collaborators

Question 39

Who two means were there to penetrate the government?

Answer 39

Ashkenaziation and tokenism

Question 40

Who argues that modern and more secular Jews often prospered?

Answer 40

Ben-rafael

Question 41

Who argues the government did their best?

Answer 41

Adler

Question 42

Who wrote an infamous 1949 article in Ha'aretz?

Answer 42

Arye Gelblum

Question 43

Whose study focuses on portrayals of Mizrahi in films?

Answer 43

Arrakam

Question 44

What happened in summer 1949?

Answer 44

Demonstration of 300 to TLV from Ramle

Question 45

When was Wadi salib?

Answer 45

1959

Question 46

How many acts of protest were there in DTs between 1960-95?

Answer 46

345

Question 47

In which election rally was rhetoric particularly venomous?

Answer 47

1981

Question 48

Name a famous Mizrahi poet

Answer 48

Sami Michael

Question 49

What do Shafir and Peled argue about the shift in voting patterns in 1977?

Answer 49

Result of combination of structural and ideological factors - structural changes in economy, reduced dependency on LSM institutions for employment and social services, new generation of voters, government induced recession (mitun), flow of Arab workers, failure in wars

Question 50

By how many votes did Begin win?

Answer 50

10,000

Question 51

How many seats did Mizrahi give Likud in 1977?

Answer 51

32/43

Question 52

Which two historians hav focussed on Shas?

Answer 52

Lehman and siebzehner

Question 53

who emphasises shas's hybridity?

Answer 53

Tessler

Question 54

In which election campaign did Shas play the ethnic card?

Answer 54

1999

Question 55

How many seats did Shas win in 1999?

Answer 55

17

Question 56

Who argues that Mizrahi Jews could be key to settling a comprehensive peace?

Answer 56

Behar

Question 57

In 2003, what % voted right-wing compared to 56% statewide?

Answer 57

74.5%

Question 58

What percentage support population transfer?

Answer 58

12%

Question 59

What percentage of settlers are first or second generational Mizrahi?

Answer 59

40%

Question 60

Who have attributed right wing popularity to tendency to appeal to irrational and traditional cultures?

Answer 60

Shamir and Aran

Question 61

Why do Yiftachel and Tzfadie argue Mizrahi vote right wing?

Answer 61

Settler society - nationalism as political capital

Question 62

What percentage define themselves as Zionist?

Answer 62

95%

Question 63

What group campaigns for Mizrahi rights?

Answer 63

Mizrahi democratic rainbow

Question 64

What percentage of a 4000 page Zionist history book was devoted to the history of the AJ?

Answer 64

2.5%

Question 65

Whose slogan in the 1980s was "stand tall"?

Answer 65

Tami

Question 66

What book focuses on the trauma of the transit camp?

Answer 66

Ballas's The Transit Camp 1964

Question 67

Who argues that socioeconomic disadvantages today are the result of class not ethnicity?

Answer 67

Ein-Gil and Machover