Jewish Culture And Society In North Africa
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Jewish Culture And Society In North Africa
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Author : Emily Benichou Gottreich
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Jewish Culture And Society In North Africa written by Emily Benichou Gottreich and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with History categories.
With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North Africa have never met a Jew. Yet as this volume reveals, Jews were an integral part of the North African landscape from antiquity. Scholars from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, and the United States shed new light on Jewish life and Muslim-Jewish relations in North Africa through the lenses of history, anthropology, language, and literature. The history and life stories told in this book illuminate the close cultural affinities and poignant relationships between Muslims and Jews, and the uneasy coexistence that both united and divided them throughout the history of the Maghrib.
The Jews Of The Middle East And North Africa In Modern Times
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Author : Reeva Spector Simon
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-30
The Jews Of The Middle East And North Africa In Modern Times written by Reeva Spector Simon and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-30 with History categories.
Despite considerable research on the Jewish diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa since 1800, there has until now been no comprehensive synthesis that illuminates both the differences and commonalities in Jewish experience across a range of countries and cultures. This lacuna in both Jewish and Middle Eastern studies is due partly to the fact that in general histories of the region, Jews have been omitted from the standard narrative. As part of the religious and ethnic mosaic that was traditional Islamic society, Jews were but one among numerous minorities and so have lacked a systematic treatment. Addressing this important oversight, this volume documents the variety and diversity of Jewish life in the region over the last two hundred years. It explains the changes that affected the communities under Islamic rule during its "golden age" and describes the processes of modernization that enabled the Jews to play a pivotal role in their respective countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first half of the book is thematic, covering topics ranging from languages to economic life and from religion and music to the world of women. The second half is a country-by-country survey that covers Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Between East And West
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Author : André Chouraqui
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Between East And West written by André Chouraqui and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Africa, North categories.
Jewish Muslim Interactions
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Author : Samuel Sami Everett
language : en
Publisher: Francophone Postcolonial Studi
Release Date : 2020
Jewish Muslim Interactions written by Samuel Sami Everett and has been published by Francophone Postcolonial Studi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Art categories.
This volume analyses Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France in the 20th and 21st centuries, through an examination of performance culture, across the genres of theatre, music, film, art, and stand-up. We explore influence and cooperation between Jewish and Muslim performers from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and diaspora communities in France.
North African Jewry In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Michael M. Laskier
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1997-06-01
North African Jewry In The Twentieth Century written by Michael M. Laskier and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-01 with Religion categories.
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new Israeli state through their settlements, often becoming the victims of Arab-Israeli conflicts and terrorist attacks. Their contribution and struggles are, in many ways, akin to the challenges emigrants from the former Soviet Union are currently encountering in Israel. Today, these North African Jewish communities are a vital force in Israeli society and politics as well as in France and Quebec. In the first major political history of North African Jewry, Michael Laskier paints a compelling picture of three Third World Jewish communities, tracing their exposure to modernization and their relations with the Muslims and the European settlers. Perhaps the most extraordinary feature of this volume is its astonishing array of primary sources. Laskier draws on a wide range of archives in Israel, Europe, and the United States and on personal interviews with former community leaders, Maghribi Zionists, and Jewish outsiders who lived and worked among North Africa's Jews to recreate the experiences and development of these communities.Among the subjects covered: --Jewish conditions before and during colonial penetration by the French and Spanish; --anti-Semitism in North Africa, as promoted both by European settlers and Maghribi nationalists; --the precarious position of Jews amidst the struggle between colonized Muslims and European colonialists; --the impact of pogroms in the 1930s and 1940s and the Vichy/Nazi menace; --internal Jewish communal struggles due to the conflict between the proponents of integration, and of emigration to other lands, and, later, the communal self-liquidiation process;—the role of clandestine organizations, such as the Mossad, in organizing for self-defense and illegal immigration;—and, more generally, the history of the North African `aliyaand Zionist activity from the beginning of the twentieth century onward. A unique and unprecedented study, Michael Laskier's work will stand as the definitive account of North African Jewry for some time.
A History Of The Jews In North Africa
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Author : H. Z(J. W.) Hirschberg
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1974
A History Of The Jews In North Africa written by H. Z(J. W.) Hirschberg and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book presents the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb and the diaspora to North Africa.
Middle East And North Africa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-02-01
Middle East And North Africa written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-01 with History categories.
Middle East and North Africa: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts – too hot to handle? The volume offers an account of ideas, historical case studies and current debates on climate change and its consequences from perspectives of eco-theology, archeology, history, geography, political science and technology.
The Jews Of The Middle East And North Africa In Modern Times
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Author : Reeva S. Simon
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003
The Jews Of The Middle East And North Africa In Modern Times written by Reeva S. Simon and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Filling an important gap in the literature, this volume documents the variety and diversity of Jewish life in the Middle East and North Africa over the last two hundred years. It explains the changes that affected the communities under Islamic rule during its "golden age" and describes the processes of modernization that enabled the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa to play a pivotal role in their respective countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
North African Mosaic
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Author : Nabil Boudraa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
North African Mosaic written by Nabil Boudraa and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Political Science categories.
This book’s ambition is to offer the most recent scholarship on North African cultures at a time when the very notion of culture is being re-evaluated in the shifting tides that both associate and divorce the forces of nationalism, globalism and neo-liberalism. Another ambition is to be a readable document about the past and the potential of North African civilizations. Those which have been crystallized into a polysemic voice from centuries of occupations, exchanges and what is now commonly called hybridizations. In this work the collective position of the authors, with their different fields of experience, is that the languages, musics, and the many expressions of common life in North Africa continue to flourish. That they are a bridge between sub-Saharan peoples and Europe. That they are a necessary antidote to the anemic political discourses that have prevailed since decolonization. That they are seminal for the future of the African continent as it begins its true voyage into democracy. It is difficult, at this juncture, to measure the distance that, in the decades to come, will be achieved on that voyage. It is, however, less difficult to evaluate the importance of North Africa on tomorrow’s world. If the past is an indicator, it will be an important force in the cross-flow of trade, ideas and of global destinies.
The Mellah Society
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Author : Shlomo Deshen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1989-03-15
The Mellah Society written by Shlomo Deshen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-03-15 with Religion categories.
The Mellah Society is a compact yet detailed and fascinating account of Jewish life in precolonial Morocco, based on the voluminous but rarely studied writings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Judeo-Moroccan sages. Shlomo Deshen, author of several books on North African Jewish immigrants to Israel, here turns his attention to the past. Taking as his focus the tension between individualism and communal authority—symbolized by the walls of the mellahs, the Jewish quarters—he applies to traditional Moroccan Jewish society questions of concern to sociologists everywhere regarding political organization, economic activity, religion, and the family. From such documents as private correspondence, archival photographs, and the legal commentaries of rabbis who served in the Jewish community courts, Deshen draws out details of daily life: disputes between spouses, businessmen, craftsmen, and inheritors; the ramifications of marriage contracts; and claims involving community taxes and extortions by Muslim potentates. Linking this material with recent historical and anthropological studies of the Maghreb, Deshen reconstructs a community about which little has been known and places it squarely within the context of traditional Moroccan society. Individual chapters deal with relations between Muslims and Jews, the material conditions of Jewish life, and the nature of politics within the mellah. Deshen devotes particular attention to the nature of the Moroccan rabbinate, the sociology of the mellah synagogue, lay community leadership, and the historic role of the Sephardic heritage in Morocco after the expulsion from medieval Spain. His close study of the nature of the extended family in traditional Morocco corrects popular misconceptions. Originally published in Israel in 1983, now translated and expanded by its author, The Mellah Society draws upon Middle Eastern and Jewish history, textual Judaic studies, and social anthropology to make an original contribution that will interest scholars of the Middle East and North Africa as well as anyone concerned with Jewish history and ethnicity.