Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries
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Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries

History and Culture in the Modern Era
Edited by Harvey E. Goldberg
Distribution: World
Publication date: 03/22/1996
Format: Paperback 1 b&w photos
ISBN: 978-0-253-21041-8
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Providing an unparalleled overview of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities in world history, this authoritative, stimulating work, superbly edited and clearly written, also suggests new approaches to assessing their cultural practices and relation to the wider societies of which they formed, and in many cases continue to form, a part." —Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College

Historians, anthropologists, and linguists from Israel, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States provide a comprehensive picture of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries in modern times. The volume touches on such themes as the impact of modernization upon Sephardi communities in North Africa, the Balkans, and other areas of the Ottoman Empire; responses to cultural change in Sephardi communities of Iraq and North Africa; issues relating to contemporary Jewish languages and literatures; and conceptions of ethnicity and gender in Sephardi communities.

Contributors include Joelle Bahloul, Jacob Barnai, Esther Benbassa, Yoram Bilu, David M. Bunis, Joseph Chetrit, Harvey E. Goldberg, Isaac Guershon, André Levy, Laurence D. Loeb, Susan Gilson Miller, Amnon Netzer, Aron Rodrigue, Esther Schely-Newman, Daniel J. Schroeter, Norman A. Stillman, Yosef Tobi, Yaron Tsur, Zvi Yehuda, and Zvi Zohar.

Author Bio

HARVEY E. GOLDBERG is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University and author of Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives.

Reviews

““. . . an important contribution to the growing body of literature on Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities.” —Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review “This is a worthy addition to an interested scholar’s bookshelf.” —Digest of Middle East Studies “This informative and well written volume offers new and often interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Judaism.” —Religious Studies Review “. . . this is a stimulating book . . . recommended for all those who are interested in the study of Jews in the Middle East, or in the challenges of modernization to miority groups in general.” —H-Net, H-Judaic “An interesting book, well written and edited, which provides the English speaking public with an overview of the Sephardi and Mizrahi communities in the Middle East and the Balkans.” —Erensia Sefardi “Providing an unparalleled overview of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities in world history, this authoritative, stimulating work, superbly edited and clearly written, also suggests new approaches to assessing their cultural practices and relation to the wider societies of which they formed, and in many cases continue to form, a part.” —Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College “This informative and well written volume offers new and often interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Judaism.” —Religious Studies Review Historians, anthropologists, and linguists provide a comprehensive picture of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries in modern times: the impact of modernization upon Sephardi communities around the world; issues relating to contemporary Jewish languages and literatures; and conceptions of ethnicity and gender in Sephardi communities.”

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Table of Contents

Preface

Note on Transliteration

Interduction by Harvey E. Goldberg

Part I: Sephardi and Middle Eastern Communities in the Context of Modern Jewish History

1
Middle Eastern and North African Jewries Confront Modernity: Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation
Norman A. Stillman

2
From Sabbateanism to Modernization: Ottoman Jewry on the Eve of the Ottoman Reforms and the Haskala
Jacob Barnai

3
Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the Balkans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Aron Rodrigue

4
The Process of Modernization of Eastern Sephardi Communities
Esther Benbassa

5
The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Daniel J. Schroeter and Joseph Chetrit

Part II: Varieties of Responses

6
Traditional Flexibility and Modern Strictness: Two Halakhic Positions on Women’s Suffrage
Zvi Zohar

7
Iraqi Jewry and Cultural Change in the Educational Activity of the Alliance Israelite Universelle
Zvi Yehuda

8
Haskala in a Sectional Colonial Society: Mahdia (Tunisia) 1884
Yaron Tsur

9
The Maskil and the Mequbbal: Mordecai Ha-Cohen and the Grave of Rabbi Shimon Lavi in Tripoli
Harvey E. Goldberg

10
The Foundation of Hispano-Jewish Associations in Morocco: Contrasting Portraits of Tangier and Tetuan
Isaac Guershon

11
Kippur on the Amazon: Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco in the Late Nineteenth Century
Susan Gilson Miller

Part III: Languages and Literatures

12
The Flowering of Judeo-Arabic Literature in North Africa, 1850-1950
Yosef Tobi

13
Modernization and the Language Question among Judezmo-Speaking Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire
David M. Bunis

14
Persian Jewry and Literature: A Sociocultural View
Amnon Netzer

Part IV: History and Memory

15
Gender, Marriage, and Social Conflict in Ha

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