1st Edition

Sites of Jewish Memory Jews in and From Islamic Lands in Modern Times

Edited By Glenda Abramson Copyright 2015
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together a collection of 16 essays that explore Jewish communities in North Africa, Turkey and Iraq. The discussions are located primarily in the 20 th century but essays also examine the Jewish community in 16 th -century Istanbul, and in early modern Morocco. Topics include traumatic departures of communities from countries of centuries-old Jewish residence, and relocations;... Read more

Preface

Part 1: North Africa

1. Myth, History and Realpolitik: Morocco and its Jewish Community Samir Ben-Layashi and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

2. The Contribution of World Jewish Organizations to the Establishment of Rights for Jews in Morocco (1956-1961) Yigal Bin-Nun

3. Double Trauma and Manifold Narratives: Jews’ and Muslims’ Representations of the Departure of Moroccan Jews in the 1950s and 1960s Emanuela Trevisan Semi

4. The Migrations of Moroccan Jews to Montreal: Memory, (Oral) History and Historical Narrative Yolande Cohen

5. Of Messiahs and Sultans: Shabbatai Zevi and Early Modernity in Morocco Emily Benichou Gottreich

6. Al-Bilad Al-Haqaniya? Otherness and Homeland in the Case of Djerban Jewry Nomi Stone

7. Remembering the Other: Postcolonial Perspectives on Relationships Between Jews and Muslims in French Algeria Claire Eldridge

Part 2: The Middle East

8. Kuzguncuk as a Village of Mutual Respect and Harmony: Myth or Reality? Erdem Güven

9. Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Fragmented Consciousness, "Inessential Solidarity", and the "Coming Community" Reuven Snir

10. Claudia Roden’s and Joan Nathan’s Cookbooks Jo-Ann Berelowitz

11. Cortijo De Sevi as Lieu De Mémoire: The Past, Present and Future of Sabbatai Sevi’s House Cengiz Sisman

12. Captive Gazelles: Iraqi Jewry in Modern Times in Relation to Cultural Practices and Vernacular Housing Zohar Amar and Ephraim Nissan

13. Three German Travellers on Istanbul Jews Yaron Ben-Naeh and Giacomo Saban

14. Mizrahim and the Development of Sacred Space in the State of Israel, 1948-1968 Doron Bar

15. Arabic Journalism as a Vehicle for Enlightenment: Iraqi Jews in the Arabic Press During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Reuven Snir

Biography

Glenda Abramson is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. Her publications include Modern Hebrew Drama, The Writing of Yehuda Amichai, Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel, Hebrew Writing of the First World War, Soldiers’ Tales and articles on modern Hebrew literature, Jewish culture and war writing.