Jewish Libya : Memory and Identity in Text and Image /

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This anthology brings together the work of a range of distinguished scholars to provide a contextual understanding of Jewish Libya. In highlighting important aspects of this now-fragmented culture and society, this collections seeks to commemorate, celebrate, and preserve vital elements of the Libya...

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Other Authors: Roumani, Judith (Editor), Meghnagi, David (Editor), Roumani, Jacques (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jews > Social life and customs.
Jews > Civilization.
Jews.
Jewish women.
HISTORY > Africa > North.
Juifs > Libye > Entretiens.
Juives > Libye.
Juifs > Libye > Moeurs et coutumes.
Juifs > Libye > Civilisation.
Juifs > Libye > Histoire.
Jews > Libya > Interviews.
Jewish women > Libya.
Jews > Libya > Social life and customs.
Jews > Libya > Civilization.
Jews > Libya > History.
Libya.
Interviews.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • History
  • The Jewish revolt against the Romans in Cyrenaica, 115-117 CE : archaeological evidence, causes, and course of the revolt / Shimon Applebaum
  • Libyan Jews in the Islamic Arab and Ottoman periods / Maurice M. Roumani
  • Folkways, language, habitat
  • Mafrum, haraimi, tebiha, bsisa, and other culinary specialities : tastes, symbols, and meaning / Hamos Guetta
  • Tradition with modernity : from Ottoman times (1835-1911) to Italian encounters (1900- ) / Harvey E. Goldberg
  • Libyan Judeo-Arabic : the Arabic dialect and the Judeo-Arabic of the Jews of Tripoli / Sumikazu Yoda
  • The vanishing landscape : a retrospective glance at the topos of Libyan Jews / Jack Arbib
  • Women
  • Libyan Jewish women as a marginalized vanguard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Rachel Simon
  • Libyan Jewish women in Italy and Israel today / Gheula Canarutto Nemni and Judith Roumani
  • Voices
  • Life interrupted : interviews with Jews of Libyan origin / Vivienne Roumani-Denn
  • Growing up Jewish in Benghazi : an interview with Samuele Zarrugh / Jacques Roumani
  • Sufferings
  • Violence and the liturgical/literary tradition : joining the chorus while retaining your voice / Harvey E. Goldberg
  • Yossi Sucary's novel Benghazi : Bergen-Belsen in the context of North African Jewish literature of the Holocaust / Judith Roumani
  • Libyan Jews between memory and history / David Meghnagi.

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