Inhalt: | 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 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 |
