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Subject(s)

• Alliance israélite universelle [Browse]
• Jews—Islamic countries—Correspondence [Browse]
• Jewish teachers—Islamic countries—Correspondence [Browse]
• Jews—Education—Islamic countries [Browse]
• Islamic countries—Ethnic relations [Browse]

Summary note

• "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.

Notes

Originally published under title: Images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in transition. ©1993.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-303) and indexes.

Source of description

Print version record.

Other title(s)

Images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in modern times

ISBN

• 9780295997803 ((electronic bk.))
• 029599780X ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

918853480

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