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Edited Collection of Middle Eastern Jewish Writings. Moshe Behar has co-edited with Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Modern Middle Easterm Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958 (Brandeis University Press, 2013). This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Further information.