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1 online resource (327 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; About the Book and Editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Note on Transliteration; PART 1 THE OTTOMAN BACKGROUND; 1 The Jews in Cairo at the Time of the Ottoman Conquest: The Account of Capsali; 2 Egyptian Jewry During the Ottoman Period as a Background to Modem Times; 3 The Decline of the Jewish Community in Eighteenth-Century Cairo: A New Interpretation in the Light of Two Iberian Chronicles; PART 2 POLITICAL COMMUNITY; 4 The Evolution of the Egyptian Nationality Laws and Their Application to the Jews in the Monarchy Period |
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5 Political Participation of the Jews in Egypt Between World War I and the 1952 RevolutionPART 3 ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; 6 The Role of Jews in Economic Development; 7 Economic Activities of Alexandrian Jews on the Eve of World War I, According to le Mercure Egyptien; PART 4 CULTURAL PARTICIPATION; 8 Ya'qūb Ṣanū': His Religious Identity and Work in the Theater and Journalism, According to the Family Archive; 9 Participation of Egyptian Jews in Modem Arabic Culture, and the Case of Murād Faraj; PART 5 INTERNAL DIVERSITY |
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10 Lowering Barriers of Estrangement: Rabbanite-Karaite Intermarriage in Twentieth-Century Egyptian Halakha11 The Traditional Jewry of the Ḥāra; PART 6 IMAGES OF EGYPTIAN JEWRY; 12 The Encounter of Exiles from Palestine with the Jewish Community of Egypt During World War I, As Reflected in Their Writings; 13 The Image of Jewish Life in Egypt in the Writings of Egyptian Jewish Authors in Israel and Abroad; 14 The Image of Egyptian Jewry in Recent Egyptian Studies; APPENDIXES; A Two Iberian Chronicles; B The Nationality Law of 1929; C The Correspondence of Sanua |
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D Seder al-Tawḥīd and Megillat Purim MitzrayimAbout the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the Jewish Diaspora. It also contained Jews who were part of the waves of immigration into Egypt that began in the second half of the nineteenth century. Coming mostly from Mediterranean countries, this predominantly Sephardic community maintained a network of commercial, social, and religious ties throughout the entire region, as well as a distinctively Mediterranean culture and life-style. In this volume, international scholars examine the Ottoman background of this community, the political status and participation of the Jews in Egyptian society, their role in economic life, their contributions to Egyptian-Arabic culture, and the images of the community in their own eyes, as well as in the eyes of Egyptians and Palestinian Jews. The book includes an extensive set of appendixes that illustrate the wide range of primary sources used by the contributors |
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Shimon Shamir holds the Kaplan Chair in the History of Egypt and Israel at Tel Aviv University |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- Egypt -- History -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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Egypt -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
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Egypt
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mizrahi, Maurice.
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Krämer, Gudrun.
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Shamir, Shimon.
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Mayer, Thomas
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| ISBN |
9781000230901 |
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1000230902 |
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9780429312120 |
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0429312121 |
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9781000302783 |
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1000302784 |
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9781000266849 |
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1000266842 |
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