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Remembering Clinton Bailey, an Israeli scholar who preserved Bedouin culture

JL;DR SUMMARY Clinton Bailey, an influential Israeli scholar, dedicated over 50 years to preserving the cultural heritage of Bedouin communities across the Negev, Jordan, and Sinai Peninsula. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Hebrew BibleCultural PreservationMiddle Eastern StudiesNegevModernizationNational Library Of IsraelBedouin CultureOral TraditionsClinton Bailey

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Haifa District, Israel
"On Jan. 5,  Bailey, known to his close friends as Itzik, died in his home in Jerusalem."
Buffalo, New York, United States
"Bailey was born Irwin Glaser in Buffalo, New York, in 1936 to an upper-middle-class secular Jewish family that owned a chain of gas stations."
Sde Boker, Southern District, Israel
"Paula told him that her husband was looking for English teachers to work in his southern Negev kibbutz, Sde Boker."
Rahat, Southern District, Israel
"The shiva house was full of life, with visitors who included the mayor of the Arab Bedouin city Rahat;"
Jordan
"posterity and shared with the world at large. He is often credited with creating the academic field of Bedouin studies in Israel."
Oslo, Norway
"While spending a summer studying art in Oslo, he came upon a copy of the Partisan Review which contained the story Gimpel the Fool by Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Saul Bellow."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"After completing his BA at the Hebrew University and then his PhD in Middle Eastern studies at Columbia, he returned to Tel Aviv to look for work."

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