Reeva Spector Simon is associate director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars. Michael Menachem Laskier teaches at the newly created Department of Middle East History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is the author of eight books, including Israel and the Arab World: Israeli-Maghrebi Common Interests,Encounters, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (forthcoming). Sara Reguer is chair of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

This is a very essential and long-awaited work about an important ancient part of the Jewish world little-known by many. A superbly organized book. -- William M. Brinner This timely volume addresses an important topic that has recently risen to the fore amidst general ignorance: the lives of the Jews of Muslim lands during the last 200 years... This is a book that should be a part of everyone's personal library. Sephardim Today Perhaps no single volume encompasses the history of Jews in the Muslim world with quite the comprehensive sweep and topical richness as The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. -- Michael Skakun The Jewish Press Well researched and clearly written, the book is a major contribution to the field, and appropriate for academic, public and center libraries as well as for individuals. Jewish Book World

• Part I: Thematic Section Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewry: The Historical Background 700-1700, by Jane Gerber Europe in the Middle East, by Reeva S. Simon Economic Life, by Michael M. Laskier and Reeva S. Simon Community Leadership and Structure, by Michael M. Laskier, Sara Reguer and Haim Saadoun Religion: Rabbinic Tradition and the Response to Modernity, by Zvi Zohar Intellectual Life, by Ammiel Alcalay Languages Judezmo and Hakitia (Judeo-Spanish), by David M. Bunis Judeo-Arabic, by Joseph Chetrit Languages of Iran and Afghanistan, by Haideh Sahim Education, by Rachel Simon Zionism, by Rachel Simon Beliefs and Customs, by Issachar Ben-Ami Aspects of Material Culture, by Esther Juhasz Music, by Mark Kligman The World of Women, by Sara Reguer Part II: Country by Country Survey Ottoman Turkey, by Jacob M. Landau Ottoman Balkans, by Aron Rodrigue The Turkish Republic, by George E. Gruen Syria and Lebanon, by Michael M. Laskier Eretz Yisrael / Palestine 1800-1948, by Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass Iraq, by Reeva S. Simon Iran and Afghanistan, by Haideh Sahim Yemen, by Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman Egypt and the Sudan, by Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim Libya, by Harvey E. Goldberg Tunisia, by Haim Saadoun Algeria, by David Cohen Morocco, by Michael M. Laskier and Eliezer Bashan

Reeva Spector Simon is associate director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars. Michael Menachem Laskier teaches at the newly created Department of Middle East History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is the author of eight books, including Israel and the Arab World: Israeli-Maghrebi Common Interests,Encounters, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (forthcoming). Sara Reguer is chair of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

This is a very essential and long-awaited work about an important ancient part of the Jewish world little-known by many. A superbly organized book. -- William M. Brinner This timely volume addresses an important topic that has recently risen to the fore amidst general ignorance: the lives of the Jews of Muslim lands during the last 200 years... This is a book that should be a part of everyone's personal library. Sephardim Today Perhaps no single volume encompasses the history of Jews in the Muslim world with quite the comprehensive sweep and topical richness as The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. -- Michael Skakun The Jewish Press Well researched and clearly written, the book is a major contribution to the field, and appropriate for academic, public and center libraries as well as for individuals. Jewish Book World

• Part I: Thematic Section Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewry: The Historical Background 700-1700, by Jane Gerber Europe in the Middle East, by Reeva S. Simon Economic Life, by Michael M. Laskier and Reeva S. Simon Community Leadership and Structure, by Michael M. Laskier, Sara Reguer and Haim Saadoun Religion: Rabbinic Tradition and the Response to Modernity, by Zvi Zohar Intellectual Life, by Ammiel Alcalay Languages Judezmo and Hakitia (Judeo-Spanish), by David M. Bunis Judeo-Arabic, by Joseph Chetrit Languages of Iran and Afghanistan, by Haideh Sahim Education, by Rachel Simon Zionism, by Rachel Simon Beliefs and Customs, by Issachar Ben-Ami Aspects of Material Culture, by Esther Juhasz Music, by Mark Kligman The World of Women, by Sara Reguer Part II: Country by Country Survey Ottoman Turkey, by Jacob M. Landau Ottoman Balkans, by Aron Rodrigue The Turkish Republic, by George E. Gruen Syria and Lebanon, by Michael M. Laskier Eretz Yisrael / Palestine 1800-1948, by Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass Iraq, by Reeva S. Simon Iran and Afghanistan, by Haideh Sahim Yemen, by Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman Egypt and the Sudan, by Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim Libya, by Harvey E. Goldberg Tunisia, by Haim Saadoun Algeria, by David Cohen Morocco, by Michael M. Laskier and Eliezer Bashan

Reeva Spector Simon is associate director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars. Michael Menachem Laskier teaches at the newly created Department of Middle East History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is the author of eight books, including Israel and the Arab World: Israeli-Maghrebi Common Interests,Encounters, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (forthcoming). Sara Reguer is chair of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

This is a very essential and long-awaited work about an important ancient part of the Jewish world little-known by many. A superbly organized book. -- William M. Brinner This timely volume addresses an important topic that has recently risen to the fore amidst general ignorance: the lives of the Jews of Muslim lands during the last 200 years... This is a book that should be a part of everyone's personal library. Sephardim Today Perhaps no single volume encompasses the history of Jews in the Muslim world with quite the comprehensive sweep and topical richness as The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. -- Michael Skakun The Jewish Press Well researched and clearly written, the book is a major contribution to the field, and appropriate for academic, public and center libraries as well as for individuals. Jewish Book World

• Part I: Thematic Section Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewry: The Historical Background 700-1700, by Jane Gerber Europe in the Middle East, by Reeva S. Simon Economic Life, by Michael M. Laskier and Reeva S. Simon Community Leadership and Structure, by Michael M. Laskier, Sara Reguer and Haim Saadoun Religion: Rabbinic Tradition and the Response to Modernity, by Zvi Zohar Intellectual Life, by Ammiel Alcalay Languages Judezmo and Hakitia (Judeo-Spanish), by David M. Bunis Judeo-Arabic, by Joseph Chetrit Languages of Iran and Afghanistan, by Haideh Sahim Education, by Rachel Simon Zionism, by Rachel Simon Beliefs and Customs, by Issachar Ben-Ami Aspects of Material Culture, by Esther Juhasz Music, by Mark Kligman The World of Women, by Sara Reguer Part II: Country by Country Survey Ottoman Turkey, by Jacob M. Landau Ottoman Balkans, by Aron Rodrigue The Turkish Republic, by George E. Gruen Syria and Lebanon, by Michael M. Laskier Eretz Yisrael / Palestine 1800-1948, by Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass Iraq, by Reeva S. Simon Iran and Afghanistan, by Haideh Sahim Yemen, by Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman Egypt and the Sudan, by Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim Libya, by Harvey E. Goldberg Tunisia, by Haim Saadoun Algeria, by David Cohen Morocco, by Michael M. Laskier and Eliezer Bashan