Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement - Couverture souple

Roumani, Maurice M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789761387 ISBN 13 : 9781789761382

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In this revised edition Prof. Roumani presents new and original material on the deportation of Libyan Jews to French North Africa, offering new insights and aspects of the consequences of the Racial Laws and of anti-Semitism as rooted in Fascist ideology. He reveals one the unknown incidents (accidents) of the war, the bombing of La Marsa, and the resulting massacre of many Libyan Jews. The end of the war witnessed the complicated negotiations among the Allied forces in the repatriation of the deportees and the mediation of the AJDC in aiding the resettlement of the deportees in their native countries. Reviews and endorsements of the original publication are available on the Press website. They include: He uses a wide range of archival and oral sources, many of which have never been used before. Throughout the book, he reveals a mastery of the social and political history, and a fine understanding of the lives, hopes, fears and aspirations of Libyan Jews, From the Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert; and: An impeccably researched, richly documented, and keenly insightful survey of Libyan Jewry s social and political evolution in the twentieth century. He achieves an admirable balance of overall scholarly dispassion with the intimate poignancy of personal engagement, Norman A. Stillman, University of Oklahoma. This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938 52), a period crucial to understanding Libyan Jewry s evolution into a community playing significant roles in Israel, Italy and in relation with Qaddhafi s Libya. Against a background of a reform conscious Ottoman administration (1835 1911) and subsequent stirrings of modernization under Italian colonial influence (1911 43), the Jews of Libya began to experience rapid change following the application of fascist racial laws of 1938, the onset of war-related calamities and violent expressions of Libyan pan-Arabism, culminating in mass migration to Israel in the period 1949 52. By focusing on key socio-economic and political dimensions of this process, the author reveals the capacity of Libyan Jewry to adapt to and integrate into new environments without losing its unique and historical traditions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Maurice M. Roumani, born in Benghazi, Libya, is a Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology and the Middle East at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel where he is also the founder and Director of the J. R. Elyachar Center for the Study of Sephardi Heritage. A graduate of Brandeis University, the University of Chicago and the University of London, he has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789761387
• ISBN 13: 9781789761382
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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