Research Catalog

Title

Jews and Muslims : images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in modern times / Aron Rodrigue.

Author

Rodrigue, Aron

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

308 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Following the rise of Islam, many Jewish communities lived in predominantly Muslim lands. Muslim-Jewish co-existence was not seriously challenged until European colonialism and the emergence of Zionism and Arab nationalism led to growing friction and conflict, resulting in the mass departures of Jews from these lands in the middle of the twentieth century."
• "Jews and Muslims throws light on the history of these communities, focusing on the century before the end of Jewish life in Muslim areas. It interweaves analysis with translations of primary documents drawn from the archives of a French-Jewish organization, the Alliance Israelite Universelle, that had an extensive Jewish school network around the Mediterranean basin. It illuminates the political, socio-economic, and cultural changes that eroded the place of Jews in Middle Eastern societies and offers a unique perspective, from within, on the historical background of some of the most vexing problems of the modern Middle East."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in transition

Alternative Title

• Images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in transition
• Images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in modern times

Subjects

• Records and correspondence
• Islamic countries > Ethnic relations
• Jews > Education > Islamic countries
• Jewish teachers > Islamic countries > Correspondence
• Jews > Islamic countries > Correspondence
• Alliance israélite universelle

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Note

• First published under title: Images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in transition. c1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-303) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. An Overview of the Alliance's Activities -- Pt. I. The Schools and Teachers of the Alliance Israelite Universelle -- 2. Instruction in the Alliance Schools -- 3. The Alliance Teaching Corps -- Pt. II. The Discourse of the Alliance Teachers and the "Civilizing" of the Jewish Communities of the Lands of Islam -- 4. The Moralizing Agenda -- 5. The Emancipation and Reformation of Women -- 6. The Transformation of the Social Structure of the Jewish Community -- 7. The Critique of Traditional Judaism -- 8. The War of Languages -- 9. A Portrait of the Communities -- 10. The Impact of the West and the Alliance Schools -- Pt. III. The Alliance Teacher as Political Activist and Political Observer -- 11. The Task of Protection

ISBN

• 0295983140 (alk. paper)
• 9780295983141 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002041622

OCLC

• 51251665
• SCSB-11867977

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library