Exile in the Maghreb : Jews under Islam, sources and documents, 997-1912 / Paul B. Fenton and David G. Littman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenton, Paul, author.

Littman, David, 1933-2012, author.

Standardized Title:

Exil au Maghreb. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Africa, North--History.

Jews.

Judaism--Relations--Islam.

Judaism.

Islam--Relations--Judaism.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (675 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reviews a thousand years of Jewish history in North Africa under Islam, culled from literary sources such as Islamic legal and theological texts, European travel accounts, and diplomatic dispatches, as well as unpublished archival material.

Contents:

BEGINNINGS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION BY EUROPEAN JEWRY (1860)THE RISE OF THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE (1907-1912); PART TWO. ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS (B); GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHIVES OF THE AIU PERTAINING TO THE MAGHREB (1860-1912); ARBITRARY PERSECUTION AND THE HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY (1863-1864); THE PRISONERS OF TETUAN (1864-1865); TYRANNY IN THE EMPIRE (1867-1877); THE MADRID CONFERENCE AND THE QUESTION OF FOREIGN PROTECTION (1879-1888); THE AUTODAFÉ OF ABRAHAM ELALOUF (FEZ, 1880); THE SYSTEM OF PROTECTIONS AND THE BACKDROP OF TERROR (1880-1881)

TWENTY YEARS AFTER MONTEFIORE'S MISSION RENEWED PERSECUTION IN DEMNAT (1884-1885)A DECADE OF DHIMMITUDE (1885-1895); THE SULTAN'S DEATH AND TRIBAL SEDITION IN MZAB (1895-1896); NEW CENTURY, OLD VICISSITUDES (1899-1906); TRAGIC EVENTS OF CASABLANCA AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES (AUGUST 1907-FEBRUARY 1908); THE MASSACRE OF SETTAT, PRELUDE AND POGROM (NOVEMBER 1907-JANUARY 1908); MOROCCO BESET BY ANARCHY (1908); PEACEFUL PENETRATION AND THE FATE OF THE JEWS (1909-1912); THE POGROM OF FEZ (APRIL 1912); GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61147-788-3