Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives

Goldberg, Harvey E.

ISBN 10: 0226300927 / ISBN 13: 9780226300924

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 1990

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X, 181 pages. A dozen pages have some underlining by previous owner, Professor Sara Reguer. Blank verso of front wrapper has inscription by a student of hers who gifted this book: Prof. Reguer it was been very enlightening to be in your class". Professor Sara Reguer, Z.L. Distinguished professor of Judaic studies, Sara Reguer, Z"L. (1943-2023), was professor emerita of Jewish history at Brooklyn College. Prof. Reguer completed her Ph. D. at Columbia where she focused on the Middle East. Her book on Winston Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East reflected those interests. Subsequently, she branched out to study and publish on Jews in the Middle East, Women, Jews in Italy, and more. Her volume entitled OPINIONATED brings together many of her writings. Late in life, she published MY FATHER'S JOURNEY, based on his memoir, tracing her family's transition from Lithuania to Mandatory Palestine to the United States. Prof Reguer spent her career at Brooklyn College where she educated legions of students and also chaired for some years the history and Jewish Studies programs.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives
• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date de parution: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226300927
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226300924
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Good + +

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Synopsis

In 1949 more than 35,000 Jews lived in Libya, but close to ninety percent had left before Libya attained its independence in 1952. Jewish Life in Muslim Libya combines historical and anthropological perspectives in depicting the changing relations between Muslims and Jews in Libya from the early nineteenth century up to the middle of the twentieth century.

Harvey E. Goldberg shows that the cultural and religious worlds of the Jewish and Muslim communities in Libya were deeply intertwined in daily life and largely remained so despite political and social changes under successive Ottoman and Italian rule. He documents the intricate symbolic linkages of Jews and Muslims in different periods and in a variety of settings. His accounts of traditional Jewish weddings, of mock fights between Jewish teams that took place in early nineteenth-century Tripoli, and of the profession of street peddling demonstrate that, despite age-old images of Jews as outsiders or infidels, Jews were also an essential and familiar part of the local Islamic society.

Goldberg's narrative continues through the British Military Administration in Libya, a period which saw growing Libyan nationalism and, in 1945, three days of riots in which more than 130 Jews were killed. Goldberg reflects on how these events both expressed and exacerbated a rupture in the social fabric linking Muslims and Jews, setting the scene for the mass emigration of Libyan Jews from their homeland.