Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries

"Providing an unparalleled overview of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities in world history, this authoritative, stimulating work, superbly edited and clearly written, also suggests new approaches to assessing their cultural practices and relation to the wider societies of which they formed, and in many cases continue to form, a part." -- Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth CollegeHistorians, anthropologists, and linguists from Israel, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States provide a comprehensive picture of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries in modern times. The volume touches on such themes as the impact of modernization upon Sephardi communities in North Africa, the Balkans, and other areas of the Ottoman Empire; responses to cultural change in Sephardi communities of Iraq and North Africa; issues relating to contemporary Jewish languages and literatures; and conceptions of ethnicity and gender in Sephardi communities.Contributors include Joelle Bahloul, Jacob Barnai, Esther Benbassa, Yoram Bilu, David M. Bunis, Joseph Chetrit, Harvey E. Goldberg, Isaac Guershon, André Levy, Laurence D. Loeb, Susan Gilson Miller, Amnon Netzer, Aron Rodrigue, Esther Schely-Newman, Daniel J. Schroeter, Norman A. Stillman, Yosef Tobi, Yaron Tsur, Zvi Yehuda, and Zvi Zohar.

HARVEY E. GOLDBERG is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University and author of Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives.

Preface
Note on Transliteration
Introduction	p. 1
Middle Eastern and North African Jewries Confront Modernity: Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation	p. 59
From Sabbateanism to Modernization: Ottoman Jewry on the Eve of the Ottoman Reforms and the Haskala	p. 73
Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the Balkans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 81
The Process of Modernization of Eastern Sephardi Communities	p. 89
The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 99
Traditional Flexibility and Modern Strictness: Two Halakhic Positions on Women's Suffrage	p. 119
Iraqi Jewry and Cultural Change in the Educational Activity of the Alliance Israelite Universelle	p. 134
Haskala in a Sectional Colonial Society: Mahdia (Tunisia) 1884	p. 146
The Maskil and the Mequbbal: Mordecai Ha-Cohen and the Grave of Rabbi Shim'on Lavi in Tripoli	p. 168
The Foundation of Hispano-Jewish Associations in Morocco: Contrasting Portraits of Tangier and Tetuan	p. 181
Kippur on the Amazon: Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 190
The Flowering of Judeo-Arabic Literature in North Africa, 1850-1950	p. 213
Modernization and the Language Question among Judezmo-Speaking Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire	p. 226
Persian Jewry and Literature: A Sociocultural View	p. 240
Gender, Marriage, and Social Conflict in Habban	p. 259
"The Peg of Your Tent": Narratives of North African Israeli Women	p. 277
Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Oulad Mansour	p. 288
The Sephardi Family and the Challenge of Assimilation: Family Ritual and Ethnic Reproduction	p. 312
Appendix I: Population Graph, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 325
Appendix II: Population Table, 1970s and 1980s	p. 328
Glossary	p. 329
Contributors	p. 334
Index	p. 337
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