Jewish culture and society in North Africa

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011

Subject:

Jews - Africa, North
Judaism - Relations - Islam
Islam - Relations - Judaism

Contributor:

Gottreich, Emily
Schroeter, Daniel J

ISBN:

9780253001467 and 0253001463

Series:

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies

Description:

1 online resource (ix, 373 pages) : illustrations

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Rethinking Jewish culture and society in North Africa / Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter -- Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Morocco / Mohammed Kenbib -- Place names in western Algeria : biblical sources and dominant semantic domains / Farid Benramdane -- The image of the Jews among Ibadi Imazighen in North Africa before the tenth century / Mabrouk Mansouri -- Jewish identity and landownership in the Sous region of Morocco / Abdellah Larhmaid -- Southern Moroccan Jewry between the colonial manufacture of knowledge and the postcolonial historiographical silence / Aomar Boum -- Dating the demise of the western Sephardi Jewish diaspora in the Mediterranean / Yaron Tsur -- Jewish-Muslim syncretism and intercommunity cohabitation in the writings of Albert Memmi : the partage of Tunis / Philippe Barbé -- Making Tangier modern : ethnicity and urban development, 1880-1930 / Susan Gilson Miller -- Muslim and Jewish interaction in Moroccan meat markets, 1873-1912 / Stacy E. Holden -- A moment in Sephardi history : the reestablishment of the Jewish community of Oran, 1792-1831 / Saddek Benkada -- Crosscurrents : trajectories of Algerian Jewish artists and men of culture since the end of the nineteenth century / Hadj Miliani -- Sol Hachuel in the collective memory and folktales of Moroccan Jews / Yaëlle Azagury -- Sol Hachuel, "heroine of the nineteenth century" : gender, the Jewish question, and colonial discourse / Sharon Vance -- Searching for Suleika : a writer's journey / Ruth Knafo Setton -- Corresponding women : female educators of the Alliance israélite universelle in Tunisia, 1882-1914 / Joy A. Land -- Education for Jewish girls in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tunis and the spread of French in Tunisia / Keith Walters -- "Les temps héroïques" : the Alliance israélite universelle in Marrakech on the eve of the French protectorate / Jonathan G. Katz -- Jewish-Muslim relations in Tunisia during World War II : propaganda, stereotypes, and attitudes, 1939-1943 / Fayṣal Cherif -- The emigration of Moroccan Jews, 1948-1956 / Jamaâ Baïda -- Zouzef Tayayou (Joseph the Tailor), a Jew from Nedroma, and the others / Belkacem Mebarki -- The real Morocco itself : Jewish saint pilgrimage, hybridity, and the idea of the Moroccan nation / Oren Kosansky

Summary:

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

Call Number:

DS135.A25 J49 2011eb