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Arabs of the Jewish faith : the civilizing mission in colonial Algeria /

Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schreier, Joshua, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Colección:Jewish cultures of the world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Jews, commerce, and communities in early colonial Algeria
  • Revolution, republicanism, and religion: responses to civilizing in Oran, 1848
  • Synagogues, surveillance, and civilization
  • Teaching civilization: French schools and Algerian midrashim, 1852-1870
  • From Napoleon's Sanhedrin to the Cremieux decree: sex, marriage and the boundaries of civilization.