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=== Standing up against racism ===
=== Standing up against racism ===
As the advisor on [[Israeli Arab]]s and [[minorities]] affairs to both the Israeli Prime Minister and the [[Ministry of Internal Security (Israel)|Ministry of Internal Security]], Mordechai Zaken has been in close contact with representatives of religious minorities. Two of his activities are noteworthy. First, he has been standing up against [[racism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23126/Default.aspx?article=related_stories |title=Israeli gov. official in solidarity with vandalized church - Israel Today &#124; Israel News |publisher=Israel Today |date= |accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6233514/Re_Anti_Christian_graffitti_di |title=Anti-Christian graffitti discovered |publisher=24hourcampfire |date= |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nlife.com.au/PDFs/1st_March_2012_Edition.pdf |title=NL 2012-03-01_Email NL Pages Template |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref> and [[prejudice]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cc.org/news/christians_israeli_jews_fight_persecution_together |title=Christians, Israeli Jews Fight Persecution Together &#124; Christian Coalition of America |publisher=Cc.org |date= |accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref> directed at [[minorities]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mezila.mops.gov.il/english/aboutusenglish/news/pages/baptistvisit.aspx |title=Government Official Visits Vandalized Church |publisher=Mezila.mops.gov.il |date= |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/showthread.php?280531-Israeli-Christians-Condemn-Acts-Of-Vandalism |title=Israeli Christians Condemn Acts Of Vandalism |publisher=Armeniandiaspora.com |date=2012-02-22 |accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sidroth.org/articles/arabs-clash-temple-mount |title=Arabs Clash at Temple Mount &#124; Sid Roth - It's Supernatural |publisher=Sid Roth |date=2012-02-27 |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iranjoo.com/ml/view.php?id=80536 |title=Iran Has Declared War Against Israel And The Jewish People!-News & Politics اخبار و سياست |publisher=Iranjoo |date=2012-02-21 |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jnnnews.com/jol_feb_28_12.htm |title=Jerusalem News Network |publisher=Jnnnews.com |date=2012-02-28 |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref>
As the advisor on [[Israeli Arab]]s and [[minorities]] affairs to both the Israeli Prime Minister and the [[Ministry of Internal Security (Israel)|Ministry of Public Security]], Mordechai Zaken has been in close contact with representatives of religious minorities. Two of his activities are noteworthy. First, he has been standing up against [[racism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23126/Default.aspx?article=related_stories |title=Israeli gov. official in solidarity with vandalized church - Israel Today &#124; Israel News |publisher=Israel Today |date= |accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6233514/Re_Anti_Christian_graffitti_di |title=Anti-Christian graffitti discovered |publisher=24hourcampfire |date= |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nlife.com.au/PDFs/1st_March_2012_Edition.pdf |title=NL 2012-03-01_Email NL Pages Template |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref> and [[prejudice]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cc.org/news/christians_israeli_jews_fight_persecution_together |title=Christians, Israeli Jews Fight Persecution Together &#124; Christian Coalition of America |publisher=Cc.org |date= |accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref> directed at [[minorities]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mezila.mops.gov.il/english/aboutusenglish/news/pages/baptistvisit.aspx |title=Government Official Visits Vandalized Church |publisher=Mezila.mops.gov.il |date= |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/showthread.php?280531-Israeli-Christians-Condemn-Acts-Of-Vandalism |title=Israeli Christians Condemn Acts Of Vandalism |publisher=Armeniandiaspora.com |date=2012-02-22 |accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sidroth.org/articles/arabs-clash-temple-mount |title=Arabs Clash at Temple Mount &#124; Sid Roth - It's Supernatural |publisher=Sid Roth |date=2012-02-27 |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iranjoo.com/ml/view.php?id=80536 |title=Iran Has Declared War Against Israel And The Jewish People!-News & Politics اخبار و سياست |publisher=Iranjoo |date=2012-02-21 |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jnnnews.com/jol_feb_28_12.htm |title=Jerusalem News Network |publisher=Jnnnews.com |date=2012-02-28 |accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref>


===Drafting the cabinet reolution in "Shihab al-Din" dispute===
===Drafting the cabinet reolution in "Shihab al-Din" dispute===

Revision as of 09:43, 23 June 2014


Mordechai Zaken also Moti Zaken (Hebrew: מוטי/מרדכי זקן; Arabic: زاكين or مردخاي زاكن), born 1958, in Jerusalem, is an expert on Middle Eastern minorities, both by training and practice. He is historian of the Jews, the Kurds and the Assyrian Christians in Kurdistan and wrote a book on the Jews of Kurdistan and their Muslim chieftains.[1]
Alongside his scholarly activity, History of the Jews in Kurdistan he has been serving as the advisor on Israeli Arabs and minorities to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first term in office (1997-1999),[2] and to successive Israeli governments (from 2001 until now).[3]

Education and academic expertise

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he earned his BA in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies (2004), and his [|[Master of Arts|MA]], Cum Laude (2008), as well as his PhD (2003), in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He was also given grants to study in the USA in both SUNY Binghamton (1987-1988) and New York University (1989-1990).
Among his noted teachers were Moshe Sharon, under whom he studied Islamic history, Benjamin Z. Kedar, expert on medieval and comparative history, and the late semitic linguist Gideon Goldenberg, with whom he published the Book of Ruth in Neo-Aramaic.[4]

Oral History: new records on the Jews and the tribal Kurdish society

The severe dearth of written sources on the Jews and the Kurds drove Zaken to initiate oral history fieldwork. Between 1985 and 2002, he interviewed more than sixty Jewish informants, altogether conducting hundreds of interviews, thus saving their memoires from being lost forever. His study unveils new sources and vivid tales that form a new set of historical records on the Jews and the tribal Kurdish society.Oral history Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). The book (2007), based on his study, has been widely spread and translated into several languages, including Arabic,[5] Kurmanji,[6] Sorani, French[7] and Farsi.

In the government

Standing up against racism

As the advisor on Israeli Arabs and minorities affairs to both the Israeli Prime Minister and the Ministry of Public Security, Mordechai Zaken has been in close contact with representatives of religious minorities. Two of his activities are noteworthy. First, he has been standing up against racism[8][9][10] and prejudice[11] directed at minorities.[12][13][14][15][16]

Drafting the cabinet reolution in "Shihab al-Din" dispute

In 2002-2003, Zaken was the de-facto coordinator of the Ministerial Committee designated to resolve the dispute in Nazareth, near the Basilica of the Annunciation, where members of the Islamic movement in Israel turned the main piazza into an outdoor mosque and opposed the implementation of plan Nazareth 2000, to develop an open touristic plaza for the expected visit of the Pope John Paul II in the year of the Millennium.[2]. This dispute is commonly known as "Shihab al-Din." [3][4][5] As an expert who knew the individuals and the particulars, Zaken constructed the final draft for the cabinet resolution, to wreck the new, unlawful attachment to the old and small mosque located at the corner of the piazza [6] His draft was approved by the cabinet and was also used by the State Attorney in the Supreme Court to repel the appeal of the Muslims.[17]

Publications

Books (including translations)

  • Jewish Subjects and their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival, in Jewish Identities in a Changing World, vol. 9 (Leiden and Boston): Brill, 2007.
  • Arabic translation: Yahud Kurdistan wa-ru'as'uhum al-qabaliyun: Dirasa fi fan al-baqa'. Transl., Su'ad M. Khader; Published by the Academic Center for Research, Beirut, 2013; يهود كردستان ورؤساؤهم القبليون : (دراسة في فن البقاء) / تأليف مردخاي زاكن ؛ ترجمة عن الانكليزية سعاد محمد خضر; بيروت, 2013  : المركز الأكاديمي للأبحاث.
  • Kurmanji translation of one part of the book: "Jews, Kurds and Arabs, between 1941 and 1952", by Dr. Amr Taher Ahmed Metîn n° 148, October 2006, p. 98-123.
  • French translation of one part of the book: "Juifs, Kurdes et Arabes, entre 1941 et 1952," Errance et Terre promise: Juifs, Kurdes, Assyro-Chaldéens, etudes kurdes, revue semestrielle de recherches, 2005: 7-43, translated by Sandrine Alexie.

Selected articles

  • The Lost from the Land of Ashur - the migrations from Kurdistan and the settlement in Eretz-Israel, in A. Mizrahi and A. Ben-David, eds., The Tribes - Evidence of Israel, Exile, Immigrations, Absorption, Contribution and Integration, 2001: 340-373, Hebrew.[18]
  • Inventors’ Fate” A Folk-Tale in the Neo-Aramaic of Zakho, in M. Bar-Asher (ed.), Massorot: Studies in Language Traditions and Jewish Languages, vols. 9, 10, 11 (1997): 383-395, Hebrew.<ref<[7]</ref>
  • The Book of Ruth in Neo-Aramaic, by Gideon Goldenberg and Mordechai Zaken, in W. Heinrichs (Ed.), Studies in Neo-Aramaic, Cambridge: Harvard Semitic Studies Series (1990): 151-157.
  • Dr Mordechai (Moti) Zaken at the World Kurdish Congress, Stockholm, 13 Oct. 2014-[8][9][10][11]
  • Information and reviews of the book by Mordechai Zaken [12]
  • Review of the book by Mordechai Zaken [13]
  • The disputes over two Basilicas in th Holy Land, an article by Mordechai Zaken [14]

References

  1. ^ Jewish Subjects and their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival, in Jewish Identities in a Changing World, vol. 9 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007.
  2. ^ Raphael Israeli, Green Crescent Over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christians by Muslims in in the Holy Land, London: Frank Cass & Co., 2014; first edition 2002: pp. 89, 100, 183,194.
  3. ^ "Report on the Government Activities in the Non-Jewish Sector in 1997". Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  4. ^ "The Book of Ruth in Neo-Aramaic,” [By] G. Goldenberg and M. Zaken, in W. Heinrichs (Ed.), Studies in Neo-Aramaic, Cambridge: Harvard [[Semitic Studies Series (1990): 151-157.
  5. ^ Yahud Kurdistan wa-ru'as'uhum al-qabaliyun: Dirasa fi fan al-baqa'. Transl., Su'ad M. Khader; Reviewers: Abd al-Fatah Ali Yihya and Farast Mir'i; Published by the Center for Academic Research, Beirut, 2013; يهود كردستان ورؤساؤهم القبليون : (دراسة في فن البقاء) / تأليف مردخاي زاكن ؛ ترجمة عن الانكليزية سعاد محمد خضر ؛ مراجعة عبد الفتاح علي يحيى، فرست مرعي. زاكن، مردخاي، ١٩٥٨م-;خضر، سعاد محمد; بيروت, 2013  : المركز الأكاديمي للأبحاث
  6. ^ French into Kurmanji translation of an article by Moti Zaken, "Jews, Kurds and Arabs, between 1941 and 1952", by Dr. Amr Taher Ahmed Metîn n° 148, October 2006, p. 98-123.
  7. ^ "Juifs, Kurdes et Arabes, entre 1941 et 1952," Errance et Terre promise: Juifs, Kurdes, Assyro-Chaldéens, etudes kurdes, revue semestrielle de recherches, 2005: 7-43, translated by Sandrine Alexie.
  8. ^ "Israeli gov. official in solidarity with vandalized church - Israel Today | Israel News". Israel Today. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  9. ^ "Anti-Christian graffitti discovered". 24hourcampfire. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  10. ^ "NL 2012-03-01_Email NL Pages Template" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  11. ^ "Christians, Israeli Jews Fight Persecution Together | Christian Coalition of America". Cc.org. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  12. ^ "Government Official Visits Vandalized Church". Mezila.mops.gov.il. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  13. ^ "Israeli Christians Condemn Acts Of Vandalism". Armeniandiaspora.com. 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  14. ^ "Arabs Clash at Temple Mount | Sid Roth - It's Supernatural". Sid Roth. 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  15. ^ "Iran Has Declared War Against Israel And The Jewish People!-News & Politics اخبار و سياست". Iranjoo. 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  16. ^ "Jerusalem News Network". Jnnnews.com. 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  17. ^ [url=http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=17590]
  18. ^ [1]

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