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Author: Shimon Shamir Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000302784 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the Jewish Diaspora. It also contained Jews who were part of the waves of immigration into Egypt that began in the second half of the nineteenth century. Coming mostly from Mediterranean countries, this predominantly Sephardic community maintained a network of commercial, social, and religious ties throughout the entire region, as well as a distinctively Mediterranean culture and life-style. In this volume, international scholars examine the Ottoman background of this community, the political status and participation of the Jews in Egyptian society, their role in economic life, their contributions to Egyptian-Arabic culture, and the images of the community in their own eyes, as well as in the eyes of Egyptians and Palestinian Jews. The book includes an extensive set of appendixes that illustrate the wide range of primary sources used by the contributors.
Author: Shimon Shamir Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000302784 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the Jewish Diaspora. It also contained Jews who were part of the waves of immigration into Egypt that began in the second half of the nineteenth century. Coming mostly from Mediterranean countries, this predominantly Sephardic community maintained a network of commercial, social, and religious ties throughout the entire region, as well as a distinctively Mediterranean culture and life-style. In this volume, international scholars examine the Ottoman background of this community, the political status and participation of the Jews in Egyptian society, their role in economic life, their contributions to Egyptian-Arabic culture, and the images of the community in their own eyes, as well as in the eyes of Egyptians and Palestinian Jews. The book includes an extensive set of appendixes that illustrate the wide range of primary sources used by the contributors.
Author: Dario Miccoli Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317624211 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt – mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country. Histories of the Jews of Egypt argues that this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as "an imagined bourgeoisie". It demonstrates how, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1950s, a resilient bourgeois imaginary developed and influenced the lives of Egyptian Jews both in the public arena, in institutions such as the school, and in the home. From the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Cairo lycée français to Alexandrian marriage contracts and interwar Zionist newspapers – this book explains how this imaginary was characterised by a great capacity to adapt to the evolutions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt, but later deteriorated alongside increasingly strong Arab nationalism and the political upheavals that the country experienced from the 1940s onwards. Offering a novel perspective on the history of modern Egypt and its Jews, and unravelling too often forgotten episodes and personalities which contributed to the making of an incredibly diverse and lively Jewish diaspora at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East, this book is of interest to scholars of Modern Egypt, Jewish History and of Mediterranean History.
Author: Joseph Modrzejewski Publisher: Jewish Publication Society ISBN: 9780827605220 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 316
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This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the Jewish people in the land of Egypt. The author uses the clear light of scientific analysis and archaeological research to illuminate the reality underlying the images from the Biblical accounts and Jewish and pagan literary texts, through the great “love affair” between Jews and Hellenic culture. It ends with the brief but crucial episode when budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company.
Author: Joel Beinin Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 052092021X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central to Beinin's study is the question of how people handle multiple identities and loyalties that are dislocated and reformed by turbulent political and cultural processes. It is a question he grapples with himself, and his reflections on his experiences as an American Jew in Israel and Egypt offer a candid, personal perspective on the hazards of marginal identities.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004435409 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 723
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Israel in Egypt is an investigation into the Jewish experience of the land and people of Egypt from antiquity to the middle ages. Using contemporary sources to explore the varied experience of Egypt’s Jews, the volume brings together a rich collection of studies from top scholars in the field.
Author: Aimée Israel-Pelletier Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253031921 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism, European colonialism, and discourse on the Holocaust. She illustrates that the Jews of Egypt were a fluid community connected by deep roots to the Mediterranean and the Nile. They had an unshakable sense of being Egyptian until the country turned toward the Arab East. With Israel-Pelletier's deft handling, Jewish Egyptian writing offers an insider's view in the unique character of Egyptian Jewry and the Jewish presence across the Mediterranean region and North Africa.
Author: Gudrun Krämer Publisher: I.B.Tauris ISBN: 9781850431008 Category : Arab-Israeli conflict Languages : en Pages : 319
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States that there is no indication of Egyptian hostility to Jews between World War I and the outbreak of the Arab revolt in Palestine in 1936. Blood libel accusations were made by Christian minorities, and a limited number by Muslims. A change in the attitude to Jews occurred in the late 1930s-40s due to the Palestine issue, the identification of "Jews" with "Zionists", and general anti-foreign tendencies. The Jewish reaction was to remain inconspicuous. A complex image of the Jew as enemy developed. Points out that Jews were discriminated against for political reasons rather than religious or racial; however, one must examine economic and cultural tensions in order to understand the deterioration of Jewish-Muslim relations. Refutes the assumption that Islam is inherently antisemitic through evidence of the economic and social success of Egyptian Jewry.
Author: Shimon Shamir
Author: Shimon Shamir
Author: Dario Miccoli
Author: Joseph Modrzejewski
Author: Joel Beinin
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Author: Mourad El-Kodsi
Author: Moshe Moscowitz
Author: Aimée Israel-Pelletier
Author: Edward Bleiberg
Author: Gudrun Krämer