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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338051703321

Autore

Salameh Franck

Titolo

Lebanon’s Jewish Community : Fragments of Lives Arrested / / by Franck Salameh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-99667-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 pages)

Disciplina

956.92004924

Soggetti

Middle East—Politics and government

World politics

Religion and politics

Citizenship

Identity politics

Middle Eastern Politics

Political History

Politics and Religion

Politics and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Prolegomenon: When Lebanon Loved the Jews -- 2. Lebanon of the Jews: An Introduction -- 3. Lebanese Jewry: Memory Fragments -- 4. Rootedness and Exile: Holocaust and Aftermath -- 5. Lebanese Jewish Memory and Memorial: Personal Recollections -- 6. Through the Eyes of Others: History’s Reckoning -- 7. On Lebanese Jewish History and Memory: A Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The



work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system. Franck Salameh is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College, USA.