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Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture »

Authors: Harvey E. Goldberg, Jewish Theological Seminary Of America
ISBN-13: 9780253210418, ISBN-10: 0253210410
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Harvey E. Goldberg

HARVEY E. GOLDBERG is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University and author of Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives.

Book Synopsis

This book is the product of a conference which was held under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and TA'ALI -- the World Movement for a United Israel, in 1991. containing 18 scholarly papers on a variety of related topics, the common thread which is woven throughout this book is the attempt to present a comprehensice picture of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewry in modern times. Each of the authors presents a different perspective of this topic, using historical, anthropological, and linguistic data in their attempt to understand this unique culture.

	Preface
	Note on Transliteration
	Introduction	1
1	Middle Eastern and North African Jewries Confront Modernity: Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation	59
2	From Sabbateanism to Modernization: Ottoman Jewry on the Eve of the Ottoman Reforms and the Haskala	73
3	Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the Balkans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	81
4	The Process of Modernization of Eastern Sephardi Communities	89
5	The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	99
6	Traditional Flexibility and Modern Strictness: Two Halakhic Positions on Women's Suffrage	119
7	Iraqi Jewry and Cultural Change in the Educational Activity of the Alliance Israelite Universelle	134
8	Haskala in a Sectional Colonial Society: Mahdia (Tunisia) 1884	146
9	The Maskil and the Mequbbal: Mordecai Ha-Cohen and the Grave of Rabbi Shim'on Lavi in Tripoli	168
10	The Foundation of Hispano-Jewish Associations in Morocco: Contrasting Portraits of Tangier and Tetuan	181
11	Kippur on the Amazon: Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco in the Late Nineteenth Century	190
12	The Flowering of Judeo-Arabic Literature in North Africa, 1850-1950	213
13	Modernization and the Language Question among Judezmo-Speaking Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire	226
14	Persian Jewry and Literature: A Sociocultural View	240
15	Gender, Marriage, and Social Conflict in Habban	259
16	"The Peg of Your Tent": Narratives of North African Israeli Women	277
17	Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Oulad Mansour	288
18	The Sephardi Family and the Challenge of Assimilation: Family Ritual and Ethnic Reproduction	312
	Appendix I: Population Graph, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	325
	Appendix II: Population Table, 1970s and 1980s	328
	Glossary	329
	Contributors	334
	Index	337