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Title Jewish Libya : memory and identity in text and image / edited by Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, and Judith Roumani
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages)
Series Modern Jewish history
Modern Jewish history.
Contents History -- The Jewish revolt against the Romans in Cyrenaica, 115-117 CE : archaeological evidence, causes, and course of the revolt / Shimon Applebaum -- Libyan Jews in the Islamic Arab and Ottoman periods / Maurice M. Roumani -- Folkways, language, habitat -- Mafrum, haraimi, tebiha, bsisa, and other culinary specialities : tastes, symbols, and meaning / Hamos Guetta -- Tradition with modernity : from Ottoman times (1835-1911) to Italian encounters (1900- ) / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Libyan Judeo-Arabic : the Arabic dialect and the Judeo-Arabic of the Jews of Tripoli / Sumikazu Yoda -- The vanishing landscape : a retrospective glance at the topos of Libyan Jews / Jack Arbib -- Women -- Libyan Jewish women as a marginalized vanguard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Rachel Simon -- Libyan Jewish women in Italy and Israel today / Gheula Canarutto Nemni and Judith Roumani -- Voices -- Life interrupted : interviews with Jews of Libyan origin / Vivienne Roumani-Denn -- Growing up Jewish in Benghazi : an interview with Samuele Zarrugh / Jacques Roumani -- Sufferings -- Violence and the liturgical/literary tradition : joining the chorus while retaining your voice / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Yossi Sucary's novel Benghazi : Bergen-Belsen in the context of North African Jewish literature of the Holocaust / Judith Roumani -- Libyan Jews between memory and history / David Meghnagi
Summary This anthology brings together the work of a range of distinguished scholars to provide a contextual understanding of Jewish Libya. In highlighting important aspects of this now-fragmented culture and society, this collections seeks to commemorate, celebrate, and preserve vital elements of the Libyan Jewish heritage and evoke an inter-generational exchange among the 200,000 Jews of Libyan origin worldwide
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 02, 2018)
Subject Jews -- Libya -- History
Jews -- Libya -- Civilization
Jews -- Libya -- Social life and customs
Jewish women -- Libya
Jews -- Libya -- Interviews
HISTORY -- Africa -- North.
Jewish women
Jews
Jews -- Civilization
Jews -- Social life and customs
Libya
Genre/Form History
Interviews
Form Electronic book
Author Roumani, Jacques, editor
Meghnagi, David, editor
Roumani, Judith, editor
LC no. 2018017465
ISBN 9780815654278
0815654278