| Editor: | Harvey E. Goldberg |
| Author: | Jewish Theological Seminary of America |
| Format: | Paperback: Illustrated: 368 pages. |
| Publisher: | Indiana Univ Pr (04/01/1996) |
| ISBN: | 0253210410 |
| ISBN13: | 9780253210418 |
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| Preface |
| Note on Transliteration |
| Introduction by Harvey E. Goldberg | 1 |
| 1 | Middle Eastern and North African Jewries Confront Modernity: Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation by Norman A. Stillman | 59 |
| 2 | From Sabbateanism to Modernization: Ottoman Jewry on the Eve of the Ottoman Reforms and the Haskala by Jacob Barnai | 73 |
| 3 | Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the Balkans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Aron Rodrigue | 81 |
| 4 | The Process of Modernization of Eastern Sephardi Communities by Esther Benbassa | 89 |
| 5 | The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Daniel J. Schroeter, Joseph Chetrit | 99 |
| 6 | Traditional Flexibility and Modern Strictness: Two Halakhic Positions on Women's Suffrage by Zvi Zohar | 119 |
| 7 | Iraqi Jewry and Cultural Change in the Educational Activity of the Alliance Israelite Universelle by Zvi Yehuda | 134 |
| 8 | Haskala in a Sectional Colonial Society: Mahdia (Tunisia) 1884 by Yaron Tsur | 146 |
| 9 | The Maskil and the Mequbbal: Mordecai Ha-Cohen and the Grave of Rabbi Shim'on Lavi in Tripoli by Harvey E. Goldberg | 168 |
| 10 | The Foundation of Hispano-Jewish Associations in Morocco: Contrasting Portraits of Tangier and Tetuan by Isaac Guershon | 181 |
| 11 | Kippur on the Amazon: Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco in the Late Nineteenth Century by Susan Gilson Miller | 190 |
| 12 | The Flowering of Judeo-Arabic Literature in North Africa, 1850-1950 by Yosef Tobi | 213 |
| 13 | Modernization and the Language Question among Judezmo-Speaking Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire by David M. Bunis | 226 |
| 14 | Persian Jewry and Literature: A Sociocultural View by Amnon Netzer | 240 |
| 15 | Gender, Marriage, and Social Conflict in Habban by Laurence D. Loeb | 259 |
| 16 | "The Peg of Your Tent": Narratives of North African Israeli Women by Esther Schely-Newman | 277 |
| 17 | Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Oulad Mansour by Yoram Bilu, Andre Levy | 288 |
| 18 | The Sephardi Family and the Challenge of Assimilation: Family Ritual and Ethnic Reproduction by Joelle Bahloul | 312 |
| Appendix I: Population Graph, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | 325 |
| Appendix II: Population Table, 1970s and 1980s | 328 |
| Glossary | 329 |
| Contributors | 334 |
| Index | 337 |
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