Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253222257 ISBN 13 : 9780253222251

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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. Individual chapters examine the complex changes in the Jewish communities of North Africa that occurred as a result of colonialism, Western modernity and secular education, nationalism, Zionism, and the independence of North African states. 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emily Benichou Gottreich is Vice Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California Berkeley. She is author of The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City (IUP, 2006).

Daniel J. Schroeter is the Amos S. Denard Memorial Chair in Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is author of The Sultan's Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World and Merchants of Essaouira.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253222257
• ISBN 13: 9780253222251
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386
• Éditeur: Gottreich Emily Benichou, Schroeter Daniel J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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