TY - JOUR
T1 - Jewish-Arab relations in Israeli freemasonry
T2 - Between civil society and nationalism
AU - Kaplan, Danny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article applies ethnographic methods and historical analysis to explore Jewish-Arab relations within Israeli Freemasonry. The article tracks local Masonic history as the fraternity developed from individual lodges under coloniallike obediences in late Ottoman and Mandate-era Palestine into a national-level organization, under the Grand Lodge of the State of Israel. In light of an official position of political noninvolvement, Jewish and Arab-Palestinian members conveyed shared values of universal fraternity, but variable interpretations of citizenship and nationalism.
AB - This article applies ethnographic methods and historical analysis to explore Jewish-Arab relations within Israeli Freemasonry. The article tracks local Masonic history as the fraternity developed from individual lodges under coloniallike obediences in late Ottoman and Mandate-era Palestine into a national-level organization, under the Grand Lodge of the State of Israel. In light of an official position of political noninvolvement, Jewish and Arab-Palestinian members conveyed shared values of universal fraternity, but variable interpretations of citizenship and nationalism.
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U2 - 10.3751/68.3.13
DO - 10.3751/68.3.13
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SN - 0026-3141
VL - 68
SP - 385
EP - 401
JO - The Middle East Journal
JF - The Middle East Journal
IS - 3
ER -