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Book SynopsisExplores the history and culture of Middle Eastern Jewries from multidisciplinary perspectives.
Table of ContentsPreface
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 Habban
Laurence D. Loeb
16
"The Peg of Your Tent": Narratives of North African Israeli Women
Esther Schely-Newman
17
Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Oulad Mansour
Yoram Bilu and Andre Levy
18
The Sephardi Family and the Challenge of Assimilation: Family Ritual and Ethnic Reproduction
Joelle Bahloul
Appendix I: Population Graph, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Appendix II: Population Table, 1970s and 1980s
Glossary
Contributors
Index
