Mizrah Uma`arav (East and West): a Sephardi cultural and political project in post-Ottoman JerusalemFootnote^*

* An earlier version of this paper was presented at a workshop entitled “The Missing Corpus: Jewish Thought in Arab Societies 1880–1960” sponsored by the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy at Ben-Gurion University in May 2014. My deep thanks go to the workshop organizers, Moshe Behar, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, and Yoram Meital, and to the astute observations and stimulating discussion of my fellow participants and attendees, in particular Liat Kozma, Avigail Jacobson, and Deborah Starr. In November 2015 I was privileged to attend a conference on Avraham Elmaleh held at Tel Aviv University, at which some of my thoughts on the man and his oeuvre were further developed; my deepest thanks go to Yaron Tsur and Aviad Moreno, as well as to the conference participants.

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