Orientalism at the gates: Immigration, the east/west divide, and elite Iraqi Jewish women in Israel in the 1950s

Signs

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 197-220

  Khazzoom, Aziza ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 33750480547     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505889     Document Type: Article

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