Deplatziert - Arabisch-jüdische Kindheit und Jugend in Israel

The book addresses a topic that has received little attention outside Israel to date: the childhood and youth of people of Jewish faith whose ancestors came from Arab and Muslim countries. They are called “Mizrahim” in Israel and often refer to themselves, in a seemingly paradoxical way, as “Arab Jews”. The book's partly autobiographical, partly ethnographic contributions refer to children and young people who are the descendants of these immigrants. They show how they suffer from violence, discrimination and disadvantage in Israel, how they grapple with the identities attributed to them and how they arrive at their own identities and forms of expression, both historically and in the present. The book is intended as a contribution to a just and peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict and aims to stimulate an open debate free of prejudice, particularly in German-speaking countries.

With contributions by Shlomi Hatuka, Avi Shlaim and Ella Shohat.