Longing and Belonging : Jews in the Modern Islamic World

• Autore: Berg Nancy
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.8924
• Soggetto topico: RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
• Soggetto non controllato: Arabic-speaking Jews; History of the Middle East; Islamicate Jewry; Jewish Middle East; Katz Center; Middle Eastern Jewish Studies; Migration to Israel; Mizrahi; Modern; Modernity; Muslim Jewish relations; North African Jewish Studies; Ottoman Empire; Religious tolerance; Sephardi; What does modernity mean
• Altri autori: DanonDina
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Social Class -- Chapter 1. Family Archives in Writing the History of Arab Jews -- Chapter 2 Inside Coffeehouse al-Sharq and the Lemon Gardens -- PART II Gender -- Chapter 3. The Capital Bride: Dowries, Trousseaus, and Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora -- Chapter 4 The Laws of Women and the Insecurities of Men -- PART III National Identity -- Chapter 5. Assessing Western Impact on Middle Eastern Jewish Modernity -- Chapter 6 Nationalism, Anti-Zionism, and Ta’ayush -- PART IV Creativity -- Chapter 7. The Predicament of Rabbinical Haskalah in the Islamic World -- Chapter 8 A Murder Ballad Between Yemen and Israel -- Chapter 9 Sanctity and Celebrity -- PART V Memory -- Chapter 10. Intergenerational Memories of Sabbatian Women’s Private Sphere in the Late Ottoman Era -- Chapter 11 Literary Afterlife -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores the history of Jewish life and experience in the modern Islamic worldLonging and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the Ottoman Empire and after its demise. Here, modern Jewish protagonists are revealed as active participants in an expansive Islamic civilization, reflecting a mutuality and cross-fertilization in the region that raises new lines of inquiry and which offers enduring lessons for the world today. This collection both foregrounds the experiences of Jewish communities that have long been relegated to the margins of historical and literary studies and, critically, uses these experiences to complicate prevailing narratives from both Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies. By following communities from the coffeeshops of Cairo to the villages of Yemen, from the local marriage market in Izmir to the global commerce of the Sassoons, readers gain intimate insight into a world that resists a simple understanding of the modern Islamic world and of the place of Jews within it. Just as much as the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience complicates prevailing paradigms in the study of Jewish modernity, so too does it enrich understandings of modernity across Muslim societies. The volume tells a story of longing, belonging, and longing to belong, of multiple affinities in a world that no longer exists.Contributors: Esra Almas, Nancy E. Berg, Dina Danon, Keren Dotan, Annie Greene, Alma Rachel Heckman, Hadar Feldman Samet, Joseph Sassoon, Edwin Seroussi, Alon Tam, Alan Verskin, Mark Wagner.
• ISBN: 1-5128-2712-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911160671403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jewish Culture and Contexts Series