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“Santiago,” the armed man asked haltingly, “Santiago … Slabodsky?” he read back to me. His question frightened me. In all likelihood he was wrestling with the cognitive dissonance engendered by the encounter with my first and last name. He surely anticipated a Jacob, Noam, Micah, or even a Paul. Santiago, however, was unexpected. His X-ray eyes, endowed by the Department of Homeland Security during employee training, suddenly began to comprehensively inspect me. I could only answer him by avoiding eye contact, attempting to occult my raising anxiety.
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Shlomo Sand, Matai, ve’ekh humtza ha’am hyedhudi (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2008). Yael Lotan, trans., The Invention of the Jewish People (London: Verso, 2009).
Ammiel Alcalay, After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 1–4.
Ella Shohat, “Dislocated Identities: Reflection of an Arab Jew,” Movement Research: Performance Journal 5 (1992): 8.
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Slabodsky, S. (2014). Epilogue. In: Decolonial Judaism. New Approaches to Religion and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345837_9
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