Title: Searching for Common Ground: Jews and Christians in the Modern Middle East
Abstract: Extensive Introduction to volume Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East; situating the contributions to the volume into the larger theoretical discussions about modernity, minority and the public sphere in the Middle East in the first half of the 20th c., with its roots in the major changes of the 19th, and influencing much of the rest of the 20th c.