Jews among Muslims (eBook, PDF)

Communities in the Precolonial Middle East
Redaktion: Deshen, Shlomo; Zenner, Walter P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Jews Among Muslims is a collection of analytical and graphic descriptions of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East in the 19th and early 20th century, written by anthropologists and historians. The introductory chapters set Middle Eastern Jewry into comparative settings. Particular chapters are devoted to most of the major communities, such as Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, Iran. Among the specific topics treated are: community autonomy, religious life and leadership, women and family life, education, social etiquette.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349248636
• Artikelnr.: 54131197

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - PART 1: INTRODUCTION - Jews Among Muslims in Pre-Colonial Times: An Introductory Survey; W.P.Zenner & S.Deshen - Traditional Jewish Society and Modern Society; J.Katz - Jewish Acculturation in Pre-Modern Societies; S.Sharot - Islam and the Jews: Myth, Counter-Myth, History; M.Cohen - Sephardic Rabbinic Responses to Modernity: Some Central Characteristics; Z.Zohar - PART 2: MOROCCO - Patronage and Protection: The Status of Jews in Precolonial Morocco; A.R.Meyers - Community Life in Nineteenth-Century Moroccan Jewry; S.Deshen - Jewish Existence in a Berber Environment; M.Shokeid - Saddiq and Marabout in Morocco; N.Stillman - PART 3: TUNISIA AND TRIPOLITANIA - Southern Tunisian Jewry in the Early Twentieth Century; S.Deshen - Communal Organization of the Jews of Tripolitania during the Late-Ottoman Period; H.E.Goldberg - PART 4: SYRIA AND IRAQ - Syrian Jews and their Non-Jewish Neighbours in Late-Ottoman Times; W.P.Zenner - Jews in Late-Ottoman Syria: Community, Family and Religion; W.P.Zenner - Baghdad Jewry in Late-Ottoman Times: The Emergence of Social Classes and of Secularization; S.Deshen - The Religious World of Jewish Women in Kurdistan; S.Sered - PART 5: YEMEN - The Social Structure of Jewish Education in Yemen; S.D.Goitein - The Authority of the Community of San'aa in Yemenite Jewry; Y.Tobi -PART 6: IRAN - Dhimmi Status and Jewish Roles in Iranian Society; L.D.Loeb - Prestige and Piety in the Iranian Synagogue; L.D.Loeb - Recommended Readings - Index