Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries History and Culture in the Modern Era

Name: Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries History and Culture in the Modern Era
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ISBN: 9780253210418

ISBN-10: 0253210410

ISBN-13: 9780253210418

Edition: N/A

Authors: Harvey E. Goldberg

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Note on Transliteration


Introduction




Middle Eastern and North African Jewries Confront Modernity: Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation




From Sabbateanism to Modernization: Ottoman Jewry on the Eve of the Ottoman Reforms and the Haskala




Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the Balkans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries




The Process of Modernization of Eastern Sephardi Communities




The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries




Traditional Flexibility and Modern Strictness: Two Halakhic Positions on Women's Suffrage




Iraqi Jewry and Cultural Change in the Educational Activity of the Alliance Israelite Universelle




Haskala in a Sectional Colonial Society: Mahdia (Tunisia) 1884




The Maskil and the Mequbbal: Mordecai Ha-Cohen and the Grave of Rabbi Shim'on Lavi in Tripoli




The Foundation of Hispano-Jewish Associations in Morocco: Contrasting Portraits of Tangier and Tetuan




Kippur on the Amazon: Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco in the Late Nineteenth Century




The Flowering of Judeo-Arabic Literature in North Africa, 1850-1950




Modernization and the Language Question among Judezmo-Speaking Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire




Persian Jewry and Literature: A Sociocultural View




Gender, Marriage, and Social Conflict in Habban




"The Peg of Your Tent": Narratives of North African Israeli Women




Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Oulad Mansour




The Sephardi Family and the Challenge of Assimilation: Family Ritual and Ethnic Reproduction



Appendix I: Population Graph, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


Appendix II: Population Table, 1970s and 1980s


Glossary


Contributors


Index