Longing and belonging : Jews in the modern Islamic world / edited by Nancy E. Berg and Dina Danon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Nancy E., editor.

Danon, Dina, editor.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Islamic countries--History.

Jews.

Islam--Relations--Judaism.

Islam.

Judaism--Relations--Islam.

Judaism.

Jews--Islamic countries--Intellectual life.

Jews--Islamic countries--Social conditions.

Arab countries--Ethnic relations.

Arab countries.

Jews--Islamic countries.

Jews--Civilization--Arab influences.

Physical Description:

vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Longing and Belonging investigates the histories of Jews living among Muslims in the modern era, both inside and outside the Ottoman Empire and after its demise. Here, modern Jewish protagonists are revealed as active participants in an expansive Islamic civilization, reflecting a mutuality and cross fertilization in the region that raises new lines of inquiry and which offers enduring lessons for the world today. This collection both foregrounds the experiences of Jewish communities that have long been relegated to the margins of historical and literary studies, and critically, uses these experiences to complicate prevailing narratives from both Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies. By following communities from the coffeeshops of Cairo to the villages of Yemen, from the local marriage market in Izmir to the global commerce of the Sassoons, readers gain intimate insight into a world that complicates our understanding of the modern Islamic world and of the history of Judaism. Just as much as the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience complicates prevailing paradigms in the study of Jewish modernity, so too does it enrich understandings of modernity across Muslim societies. The collection tells a story of longing, belonging, and longing to belong, of multiple affinities in a world that no longer exists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Nancy E. Berg and Dina Danon

Family archives in writing the history of Arab Jews : the case of the Sassoons / Joseph Sassoon

Inside Coffeehouse al-Sharq and the Lemon Gardens : Jews and Muslims in public spaces in twentieth-century Cairo / Alon Tam

The capital bride : dowries, trousseaus, and modernity in the Eastern Sephardi diaspora / Dina Danon

The laws of women and the insecurities of men : regulating modern Jewish gender performance in Baghdad / Annie Greene

Assessing Western impact on Middle Eastern Jewish modernity : the case of the travels of Ḥayyim Ḥabshūsh and Joseph Halévy / Alan Verskin

Nationalism, anti-Zionism, and Ta'ayush : the victorious vision of Simon Lévy, Moroccan Jewish patriot / Alma Rachel Heckman

The predicament of rabbinical Haskalah in the Islamic world : the case of Rabbi Sliman Mani / Keren Dotan

A murder ballad between Yemen and Israel : the mystery of the DawdaḥīGirl / Mark Wagner

Sanctity and celebrity : the musical journey of Rabbi David Buzaglo from Casablanca to Kiryat Yam / Edwin Seroussi

Intergenerational memories of Sabbatian women's private sphere in the late Ottoman era : Sabiha and Yıldız Sertel's memoirs / Hadar Feldman Samet and Esra Almas

Literary afterlife : narratives of childhood by writers from Egypt and Iraq / Nancy E. Berg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781512827118

1512827118

OCLC:

1425238116