The history of Arab-Jewish culture(s) and coexistence goes back centuries, to the pre-Islamic tribal societies populating Arabia. A long history of relations – sometimes romanticized, sometimes forgotten, even repressed and demonized – is waiting to be discovered, such as Jewish life under the Islamic rule of what are now the Arab countries as well as on the Iberian Peninsula (al-Andalus), in the Ottoman Empire, and under the influence of European colonial interests.
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Shibboleth! On Visible and Invisible Borders
An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems
In collaboration with the Jewish Museum Munich
While we are talking about globalization and international community, new borders, fences, and walls are erected all over the world—around states, occupied territories, and gated communities, between public and private spaces, between the legal and the illegal. Some of these borders are permeable and others fatal, some are visible and others reinforced by cultural codes, language tests, or biometric methods. Borders decide about life and death, “identity” and “otherness”, belonging and exclusion.