%0 Journal Article
%T Space of Transit, Place of Memory: Ma¡¯abarah and Literary Landscapes of Arab Jews
%A Piera Rossetto
%J Quest : Issues in Contemporary Jewish History.
%D 2012
%I Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea  CDEC
%X The Sifrut ha-ma¡¯abarah (transit camp literature) represents a narrative space where contemporary Israeli authors of Middle Eastern origin tell the stories forgotten, considered insignificant, and often repressed of the ¡°oriental Jews¡± (Mizra im), who emigrated to Israel from North Africa and the Middle East during the 1950¡¯s and the 1960¡¯s.After a brief historical introduction on the ma¡¯abarot (transit camps), I aim to unravel the experience of the ma¡¯abarah as a ¡°place of memory¡± and a ¡°narrative place.¡± My reflections are based on the concept of ¡°space/place¡± as conveyed from a human geography perspective. In this framework, I suggest different ¡°literary declensions¡± through which ma¡¯abarah might be interpreted, and in particular as a narrative place of defiance, resistance, and exile.
%K Jews
%K Arab countries
%K Mediterranean
%K Israel
%K oral history
%K Sifrut ha-ma¡¯abarah
%K ma¡¯abarot
%K oriental Jews
%K Mizra im
%K North Africam Middle East
%U http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/focus.php?id=315