A History of the Jews in North Africa, Volume 1 from Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century
Author: Hirschberg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974-06
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9004671102
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The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times
Author: Reeva Spector Simon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003-04-30
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0231507593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite 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.
A History of the Jews in North Africa: From antiquity to the sixteenth century
Author: Haim Zeev Hirschberg
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb and the diaspora to North Africa.
A History of the Jews in North Africa: From antiquity to the sixteenth century
Author: Haim Zeev Hirschberg
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Published: 1974
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJews Among Muslims
Author: Shlomo Deshen
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0814796761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes material on the history of Jews in Morocco, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran.
The Jews of France Today
Author: Erik Cohen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9004207538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a national, empirical survey, this book presents a rich portrait of the Jews of France today. An expanded translation of a French edition, the book explores the demographics, identity, communal participation, social issues and values of this community.
Jewish Communities in Exotic Places
Author: Ken Blady
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 146162908X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and aspects of the dominant cultures in which they were situated.
Jewish-Muslim Relations in Past and Present
Author: Josef Meri
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9004345736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume assembles multidisciplinary research on the Judaeo-Islamic tradition in medieval and modern contexts. The introduction discusses the nature of this tradition and proposes the more fluid and inclusive designation of “Jewish-Muslim Relations.” Contributions highlight diverse aspects of Jewish-Muslim relations in medieval and modern contexts, including the academic study of Jewish history, the Qur’anic notion of the “upright community” referring to the “People of the Book,” Jews in medieval fatwas, use of Arabic and Hebrew script, Jewish prayer in Christian Europe and the Islamic world, the permissibility of Arabic music in modern Jewish thought, Jewish and Muslim feminist exegesis, modern Sephardic and Morisco identity, popular Tunisian song, Jewish-Muslim relations in cinema and A.S. Yehuda’s study of an 11th-century Jewish mystic.
Exile in the Maghreb
Author: Paul B. Fenton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-05-05
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 1611477883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Exile in the Maghreb entails the first attempt at describing the historical reality of the legal and social condition of the Jews in the Muslim countries of North Africa (principally Algeria and Morocco) over a thousand year period from the Middle Ages (997 C.E.) to the French colonization (1830 Algeria/1912 Morocco.). The Exile is not a formal history but a chronological anthology of documents drawn from literary (section A) and archival sources (section B), many of which are published for the first time. In section A, Arabic and Hebrew chronicles, Muslim legal, and theological texts are followed by the accounts culled from European travelers—captives, diplomats, doctors, clerics, and adventurers. Each document is introduced and annotated in such a way as to bring out its importance. The second section (B) reflects the diplomatic activity deployed by humanitarian organizations in favour of North African Jewry. Spanning the 19th and early 20th centuries, these are mainly drawn from the archives of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (Paris) and the Anglo-Jewish Association (London). The documents are richly elucidated with illustrations taken from the international press. The book presents a new and illuminating insight into the status of Jews under the Crescent. The Jews of North Africa were the only minority under Islam, in this region and their history reflects Judaism's exclusive encounter with Islam.
Jewish Morocco
Author: Emily Benichou Gottreich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1838603611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Gottreich examines the history of Jews in Morocco from the pre-Islamic period to post-colonial times, drawing on newly acquired evidence from archival materials in Rabat. Providing an important reassessment of the impact of the French protectorate over Morocco, the author overturns widely accepted views on Jews' participation in Moroccan nationalism - an issue often marginalized by both Zionist and Arab nationalist narratives - and breaks new ground in her analysis of Jewish involvement in the istiqlal and its aftermath. Fitting into a growing body of scholarship that consciously strives to integrate Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, Emily Gottreich here provides an original perspective by placing pressing issues in contemporary Moroccan society into their historical, and in their Jewish, contexts.
