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  • A Sephardi Sea

    Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean

    by Dario Miccoli ...
    Series series Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
    A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some of ... Read more

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  • A Sephardi Sea

    Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean

    by Dario Miccoli ...
    Series series Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
    A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some of ... Read more

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  • Histories of the Jews of Egypt

    An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s

    by Dario Miccoli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History
    Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt – mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country.Histories of the Jews of Egypt argues that this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as "an imagined bourgeoisie". It demonstrates how, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1950s, a ... Read more

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  • Radical Jewish Politics

    A Global Perspective

    For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe. Jews were attracted to radical politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to transform the societies they lived in but also out of a deep desire to ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature

    A Diaspora

    Edited by Dario Miccoli ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews. However, few of these studies abandoned the Diaspora/Israel dichotomy and analysed the Jews who moved to Israel and those that settled ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust and the Nakba

    A New Grammar of Trauma and History

    Series Book 39 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical global contexts of nationalism and colonialism, The Holocaust and the Nakba explores the ... Read more

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    How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco

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  • Becoming Ottomans

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  • The Dönme

    Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

    This book tells the story of the Dönme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of the nineteenth century rose to the top of Salonikan society. The Dönme helped transform Salonika into ... Read more

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  • Jews and the Mediterranean

    A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other.Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume ... Read more

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  • Nazism in Syria and Lebanon

    The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945

    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
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