Sites of Jewish Memory: Jews in and from Islamic Lands

ISBN-13: 9780415747868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 316 str.

Glenda Abramson

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Bringing together a collection of essays exploring Jewish communities in North Africa, Turkey and Iraq, the theme of this book is of the instability of memory and the attempt to understand the interactions between memory and history as Jews recount their experiences of living in, and often leaving, their past homelands.

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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

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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.