Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4061
• Soggetto topico: Islam - Relations - Judaism; Judaism - Relations - Islam; Jews - Africa, North
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SchroeterDaniel J GottreichEmily <1966->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Barbe -- 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 israelite 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 heroïques" : the Alliance israelite 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 histor
• Titolo autorizzato: Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa
• ISBN: 0-253-00146-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456785503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.