French Jews, Turkish Jews The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Politics of Jewish Schooling in Turkey 1860-1925

Name: French Jews, Turkish Jews The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Politics of Jewish Schooling in Turkey 1860-1925
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ISBN: 9780253350213

ISBN-10: 0253350212

ISBN-13: 9780253350213

Edition: 1990

Authors: Aron Rodrigue

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The Alliance Israélite Universelle, a French-Jewish organization founded in 1860, occupies a crucial place in the history of Sephardi communities in the modern period. In the fifty years after its creation, the Alliance established a vast network of schools in the lands of Islam for the purpose of "civilizing" the local Jewish communities and remaking them in the idealized self-image of French Jewry.This study, drawing on the author's extensive research in the archives of the Alliance in Paris, focuses on the work of the Alliance among Turkish Jewry, one of the communities most strongly affected by the organizations' activities. Although the Alliance played a conclusive role in the…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 9/22/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.35" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English