Resumen de Between others and brothers
Some fifteen years ago, the Israel Museum exhibition �To the East: Orientalism in the Arts in Israel� featured a photograph by the Israeli artist Meir Gal entitled �Nine Out of Four Hundred: The West and the Rest.� At the center of the photograph was Gal, holding the nine pages that dealt with the history of Jews in the Middle East in a textbook of Jewish history used in Israel's education system. As Gal viscerally argued, �these books helped establish a consciousness that the history of the Jewish people took place in Eastern Europe and that Mizrahim have no history worthy of remembering.� More damningly, he wrote that �the advent of Zionism and the establishment of the Israeli State drove a wedge between Mizrahim and their origins, and replaced their Jewish-Arab identity with a new Israeli identity based on European ideals as well as hatred of the Arab world.�
