The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry

  Acknowledgments

 collapse section1. Introduction
 The Jews of Egypt
 Authenticity and Cosmopolitanism
 Interdisciplinary Renegotiation of History, Diaspora, and Memory
 The Neo-Lachrymose Conception of Jewish-Arab history
 Alternatives To Neo-lachrymosity
 Operation Susannah
 From Pillars of the Community To Compradors
 Middle Eastern Jews (mizrahim) and the Zionist National Narrative
 Encountering Egypt
 Notes

 collapse section1. Discourses and Materialities of Identity
 expand section2. Communitarianisms, Nationalisms, Nostalgias
 expand section3. Citizens, Dhimmis, and Subversives
 expand section4. Nazis and Spies

 collapse section2. Diasporas and the Reconstruction of Identity
 expand section5. The Graduates of Ha-shomer Ha-tza‘ir in Israel
 expand section6. The Communist Emigres in France
 expand section7. The Karaites of the San Francisco Bay Area

 collapse section3. Egyptian-Israeli Peace and Egyptian Jewish Histories
 expand section8. The Recovery of Egyptian Jewish Identity
 expand section9. Opposing Camp David and Remembering the Jews of Egypt

  Interview with Jacques Hassoun
  Plates
  Abbreviations Used in the Notes
 expand sectionBibliography

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