Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries

HARVEY E. GOLDBERG is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University and author of Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives.

Preface Note on Transliteration Interduction by Harvey E. Goldberg Part I: Sephardi and Middle Eastern Communities in the Context of Modern Jewish History 1 Middle Eastern and North African Jewries Confront Modernity: Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation Norman A. Stillman 2 From Sabbateanism to Modernization: Ottoman Jewry on the Eve of the Ottoman Reforms and the Haskala Jacob Barnai 3 Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the Balkans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Aron Rodrigue 4 The Process of Modernization of Eastern Sephardi Communities Esther Benbassa 5 The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Daniel J. Schroeter and Joseph Chetrit Part II: Varieties of Responses 6 Traditional Flexibility and Modern Strictness: Two Halakhic Positions on Women's Suffrage Zvi Zohar 7 Iraqi Jewry and Cultural Change in the Educational Activity of the Alliance Israelite Universelle Zvi Yehuda 8 Haskala in a Sectional Colonial Society: Mahdia (Tunisia) 1884 Yaron Tsur 9 The Maskil and the Mequbbal: Mordecai Ha-Cohen and the Grave of Rabbi Shimon Lavi in Tripoli Harvey E. Goldberg 10 The Foundation of Hispano-Jewish Associations in Morocco: Contrasting Portraits of Tangier and Tetuan Isaac Guershon 11 Kippur on the Amazon: Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco in the Late Nineteenth Century Susan Gilson Miller Part III: Languages and Literatures 12 The Flowering of Judeo-Arabic Literature in North Africa, 1850-1950 Yosef Tobi 13 Modernization and the Language Question among Judezmo-Speaking Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire David M. Bunis 14 Persian Jewry and Literature: A Sociocultural View Amnon Netzer Part IV: History and Memory 15 Gender, Marriage, and Social Conflict in Habban Laurence D. Loeb 16 "The Peg of Your Tent": Narratives of North African Israeli Women Esther Schely-Newman 17 Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Oulad Mansour Yoram Bilu and Andre Levy 18 The Sephardi Family and the Challenge of Assimilation: Family Ritual and Ethnic Reproduction Joelle Bahloul Appendix I: Population Graph, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Appendix II: Population Table, 1970s and 1980s Glossary Contributors Index