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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781503634534
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2024
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Uniform Title: Tsiyonut ha-meshiḥit shel ha-Gaʼon mi-Ṿilnah
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Eṭḳes, ʿImanuʾel, 1939 - The invention of a tradition
    DDC: 296.38209
    Keywords: Elijah ben Solomon ; Elijah ben Solomon Disciples ; Rivlin, Shelomo Zalman ; Jewish messianic movements History ; Zionism and Judaism History ; Zionism History ; European history ; Europäische Geschichte ; Geschichte der Religion ; HISTORY / Europe / General ; HISTORY / Jewish ; History of religion ; Judaism ; Judentum ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; Czech Republic ; Europa ; Europe
    Abstract: "The Gaon of Vilna was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth century Europe; his legacy is claimed by religious Jews, both Zionist and not. In the mid-twentieth century, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin wrote several books advancing the myth that the Gaon was an early progenitor of Zionism. Following the 1967 War in Israel, messianic sentiments spread in some circles of the national-religious public in Israel, who embraced this myth and made it a central component of the historical narrative they advanced. For those who identified with the religious Zionist enterprise, the myth of the Gaon and his disciples as the first Zionists was seen as proof of the righteousness of their path. In this book, Israeli scholar Immanuel Etkes explores how what he calls the "Rivlinian myth" took hold, and demonstrates that it has no basis in historical reality. Etkes argues that proponents of the Rivlinian myth seek to blur the distinction between Zionism as a modern national movement or a religious one - a distinction that underlies many of the central conflicts of contemporary Israeli politics. As historian David Biale suggests in his brief foreword to this English translation, "what is at stake here is not only historical truth but also the very identity of Zionism as a nationalist movement.""--
    Note: "Originally published in Hebrew in 2019 under the title Ha-tsiyonut ha-meshichit shel ha-gaon mi-Vilna: Hamtzaʼatah shel masoret." , Includes bibliographical references and index , Zielgruppe: 5PGJ, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen
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  • 2
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503634343 , 9781503634336
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 277 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Biale, David, 1949- Jewish culture between Canon and Heresy
    DDC: 909/.04924
    Keywords: Jews History ; Jews Intellectual life ; Jewish philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Judentum ; Kultur ; Religion ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pieces, written between 1974 and 2016, are all representative of a method Biale calls "counter-history": "the discovery of vital forces precisely in what others considered marginal, disreputable and irrational." The themes that have preoccupied Biale throughout the course of his distinguished career - in particular power, sexuality, blood, and secular Jewish thought - span the periods of the Bible, late antiquity, and the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Exemplary essays in this volume argue for the dialectical relationship between modernity and its precursors in the older tradition, working together to "brush history against the grain" in order to provide a sweeping look at the history of the Jewish people. This volume of work by one of the boldest and most intellectually omnivorous Jewish thinkers of our time will be essential reading for scholars and students of Jewish studies"--
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  • 3
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503633186
    Language: English
    Pages: 495 Seiten , 23,5 cm
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish mysticism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wolfson, Elliot R Philosophical pathos of Susan Taubes
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wolfson, Elliot R., 1956 - The philosophical pathos of Susan Taubes
    DDC: 813/.54
    Keywords: Taubes, Susan Philosophy ; Jewish philosophy 20th century ; Religion Philosophy ; Taubes, Susan 1928-1969 ; Philosophie
    Abstract: "The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on close readings of Susan Taubes' writings, including her correspondence with her husband Jacob Taubes, scholarly essays, literary compositions, and poems, Elliot R. Wolfson plumbs the depths of a tragic worldview hovering between the poles of nihilism and hope. Susan Taubes presciently explored the hypernomian status of Jewish ritual and belief after the Holocaust, as well as the theopolitical challenges of Zionism and the dangers of ethnonationalism. She engaged with numerous other thinkers, analyzing the antitheological theology and gnostic repercussions of Heideggerian thought; and the mystical atheism and apophaticism of tragedy in Simone Weil. And she understood poetry as the means to face the faceless and to confront the silence of death in the temporal overcoming of time through time. Wolfson delves into the abyss that molded Susan Taubes's mytheological thinking, making a powerful case for the relevance of her work to the study of philosophy and religion today"
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : memory and heeding the murmuring of the Israelites -- Ghosts of Judaism and the serpent devouring its own tale -- Zionism and the sacramental danger of nationalism -- Gnosis and the covert theology of antitheology : Heidegger, apocalypticism, and Gnosticism -- Tragedy, mystical atheism, and the apophaticism of Simone Weil -- Facing the faceless : poetic truth, temporal oblivion, and the silence of death.
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  • 4
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503630314
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 365 Seiten, 10 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Uniform Title: Li naḳam ṿe-shilem
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 940.53/18
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    Keywords: Nakam ; Geschichte ; Nakam (Organization) / History ; Nazi hunters / Germany / History ; Holocaust survivors / Israel / Interviews ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Influence ; Revenge / Moral and ethical aspects ; Holocaust survivors / Interviews ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Nazi hunters ; Germany ; Israel ; 1939-1945 ; History ; Interviews ; Interviews ; Nakam ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans, Nakam (Hebrew for "vengeance") tells the story of "the Avengers" (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks on survivors continued long after the Nazi surrender, these fifty young men and women sought retaliation at a level commensurate with the devastation caused by the Holocaust, making clear to the world that Jewish blood would no longer be shed with impunity. Had they been successful, they would have poisoned city water supplies and loaves of bread distributed to German POWs, with the aim of killing six million Germans. Kovner and his followers went to great lengths to carry out their plans, going so far as to obtain the plans for Nuremberg's municipal water system, secure large quantities of poison, infiltrate a POW camp and the bakery that supplied it, and distribute poisoned bread to prisoners - but their plots were ultimately stymied. Most of the members of Nakam eventually returned to Israel, where for decades many of them refused to speak publicly about their roles in the group. While the Avengers' story began to come to light in the 1980s, details of the relations between the group and Zionist leadership and the motivations of its members have remained unknown. Drawing on rich archival sources and in-depth interviews with the Avengers in their later years, historian Dina Porat examines the formation of the group and the clash between the formative humanistic values held by its members and their unrealized plans for violent retribution"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Lublin, January-March 1945 : the idea of vengeance -- Bucharest, March-June 1945 : from conception to preparation -- Italy, July-August 1945 : the Jewish Brigade -- Palestine and Europe, August 1945-March 1946 : Kovner and the Yishuv -- Paris, February-June 1946 : the Haganah and the avengers -- Germany, August 1945-June 1946 : life apart from life
    Note: "Originally published in Hebrew in 2019 under the title Li Nakam v'Shilem." , Translated from the Hebrew
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781503634428 , 9781503634435
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 189 Seiten , Illustrationen, 2 Karten
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Uniform Title: Sipur Daṿid ha-Reʼuveni
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reubeni, David, active 16th century Diary of a black Jewish messiah
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Verskin, Alan, 1981 - Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah
    DDC: 296.8/2092
    Keywords: Reuveni, David ; Pseudo-Messiahs Biography ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers ; Biografien: allgemein ; Biography: general ; Geographical discovery & exploration ; Geographische Entdeckungen und Erforschungen ; HISTORY / Jewish ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
    Abstract: Introduction -- Africa -- Egypt and the Holy Land -- Italy -- Portugal -- Spain -- Appendix : Solomon Cohen's addendum.
    Abstract: "In 1523, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. With his army of hardy desert warriors from lost Israelite tribes, he pledged to deliver the Jews to the Holy Land by force and restore their pride and autonomy. Traveling from Arabia to Africa and then Europe, he spent a decade shuttling between Christian rulers in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and France, pitching himself as an ally against an ascendent Ottoman empire and offering support in exchange for weaponry. Reubeni was hailed as a messiah by both wealthy Jews and Iberia's oppressed conversos, but his grand ambitions came to a halt in Regensburg when the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, turned him over to the Inquisition and, in 1538, he was likely burned at the stake. Diary of a Black Messiah is the first English translation of Reubeni's Hebrew-language diary, detailing his travels across Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean and personal travails. Written in a Hebrew drawn from everyday speech, entirely unlike other literary works of the period, the diary reveals in very concrete terms what it would take to raise a Jewish movement to conquer the Holy Land"--
    Abstract: In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new lands, people throughout the Mediterranean saw the signs of an impending apocalypse and envisioned a coming war that would end with a decisive Christian or Islamic victory. With his army of hardy desert warriors from lost Israelite tribes, Reubeni pledged to deliver the Jews to the Holy Land by force and restore their pride and autonomy. He would spend a decade shuttling between European rulers in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and France, seeking weaponry in exchange for the support of his hitherto unknown but mighty Jewish kingdom. Many, however, believed him to favor the relatively tolerant Ottomans over the persecutorial Christian regimes. Reubeni was hailed as a messiah by many wealthy Jews and Iberia's oppressed conversos, but his grand ambitions were halted in Regensburg when the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, turned him over to the Inquisition and, in 1538, he was likely burned at the stake.Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah is the first English translation of Reubeni's Hebrew-language diary, detailing his travels and personal travails. Written in a Hebrew drawn from everyday speech, entirely unlike other literary works of the period, Reubeni's diary reveals both the dramatic desperation of Renaissance Jewish communities and the struggles of the diplomat, trickster, and dreamer who wanted to save them
    Description / Table of Contents: 0. Introduction 1. Africa 2. Egypt and the Holy Land 3. Italy 4. Portugal 5. Spain Appendix: Solomon Cohen's Addendum
    Note: Translation of: Sipur Daṿid ha-Reʼuveni , Includes bibliographical references and index , Zielgruppe: 5PGJ, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781503636330
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 319 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.3089/924056940904
    Keywords: Jews, German / Palestine / History / 20th century ; Sex role / Palestine / History / 20th century ; Palestine / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; Palestine / Social conditions / 20th century ; Palestine / History / 1917-1948 ; Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; Jews, German ; Sex role ; Social conditions ; Middle East / Palestine ; 1900-1999 ; History ; Palästina ; Jischuw ; Einwanderung ; Deutschland ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschichte 1933-1938
    Abstract: "For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandate Palestine between 1933 and 1941, migration meant radical changes: it transformed their professional and cultural lives and confronted them with a new language, climate, and society. Bridging German-Jewish and Israeli history, this book tells the story of German-Jewish migration to Mandate Palestine/Eretz Israel as gender history. It argues that this migration was shaped and structured by gendered policies and ideologies and experienced by men and women in a gendered form - from the decision to immigrate and the anticipation of change, through the outcomes for family life, body, self-image, and sexuality. Immigration led to immediate transformations in allocations of tasks within the family, concepts of masculinity and femininity, and participation in the labor market and domestic life. Through a close examination of archival materials in German, English, and Hebrew, including administrative records, personal documents, newspapers, and oral history interviews conducted by the author, this book follows Jewish migrants along their journeys from Germany and into the workplaces, living rooms, and kitchens of their new homeland, providing a new perspective on everyday life in Mandate Palestine. Viola Alianov-Rautenberg's work illuminates key issues at the intersection of migration studies, German-Jewish studies, and Israeli history, demonstrating how the lens of gender enriches our understanding of social change, power, ethnicity, and nation-building"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : migration, gender, and change -- Liftmenschen in the Levant : voyage, arrival, and absorption -- We are the West in the East : gendered encounters in Mandatory Palestine -- Capable women and men in crisis? : German Jews in the Yishuv labor market -- How to cook in Palestine? : homemaking in times of transition -- Qualities that the present age demands : gender and the immigrant family
    Note: Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 285-300
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  • 7
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503635562 , 9781503634664
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 249 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2023
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Judenvernichtung ; Muslim ; Antisemitismus ; Deutschland ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Study and teaching / Germany ; Antisemitism / Study and teaching / Germany ; Antisemitism / Germany / Prevention ; Muslims / Education / Germany ; Muslims / Germany / Attitudes ; Collective memory / Germany ; Deutschland ; Muslim ; Judenvernichtung ; Antisemitismus ; Kollektives Gedächtnis
    Abstract: "At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture--not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its Nazi past, a status shared to a lesser degree by Germans from the formerly socialist East Germany. It is for this reason that the German government, German NGOs, and Muslim minority groups have begun to design Holocaust education and anti-Semitism prevention programs specifically tailored for Muslim immigrants and refugees, so that they, too, can learn the lessons of the Holocaust and embrace Germany's most important postwar democratic political values. Based on ethnographic research conducted over a decade, Subcontractors of Guilt explores when, how, and why Muslim Germans have moved to the center of Holocaust memory discussions. Esra Özyürek argues that German society "subcontracts" guilt of the Holocaust to new minority immigrant arrivals, with the false promise of this process leading to inclusion into the German social contract and equality with other members of postwar German society. By focusing on the recently formed but already sizable sector of Muslim-only anti-Semitism and Holocaust education programs, this book explores the paradoxes of postwar German national identity"--
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  • 8
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503629776 , 9781503629424
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 286 pages, 18 unnumbered pages , illustrations , 23 cm
    Year of publication: 2022
    DDC: 791.43028092
    Keywords: Murād, Laylá ; Motion picture actors and actresses Biography ; Women singers Biography ; Singers Biography ; Murād, Lailā 1918-1995
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  • 9
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503630567 , 9781503631687
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 300 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2022
    Keywords: Umm-Kulṯūm ; Halali, Salim ; Bachetarzi, Mahieddine ; al-Maghribī, Sāmī al- ; Marokko ; Algerien ; Tunesien ; Juden ; Araber ; Arabische Musik ; Volksmusik ; Marokko ; Algerien ; Tunesien ; Juden ; Araber ; Arabische Musik ; Volksmusik ; Halali, Salim ; Bachetarzi, Mahieddine ; al-Maghribī, Sāmī al- ; Umm-Kulṯūm
    Abstract: "A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver recovers a world of many voices--of pioneering impresarios, daring female stars, cantors turned composers, witnesses and survivors of war, and national and nationalist icons--whose music still resonates well into our present"--
    Note: 2206 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 9781503631694 (ISBN) , Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Recording history / Silver, Christopher (Christopher Benno)
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  • 10
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503630307
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 380 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970 - The Baron
    DDC: 943/.0049240092
    Keywords: Hirsch, Maurice de ; Jewish Colonization Association Biography ; Jewish capitalists and financiers Biography ; Jewish philanthropists Biography ; Jews Biography ; Hirsch, Moritz von 1831-1896 ; Hirsch, Moritz von 1831-1896 ; Europa ; Amerika ; Judentum ; Philanthropie ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    Abstract: "A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the emblematic figures of the nineteenth century. Above all, he was the most influential Jewish philanthropist of his time. Today Hirsch is less well known than the Rothschilds, or his gentile counterpart Andrew Carnegie, yet he was, to his contemporaries, the very embodiment of the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Hirsch's life provides a singular entry point for understanding Jewish philanthropy and politics in the late nineteenth century, a period when, as now, private benefactors played an outsize role in shaping the collective fate of Jewish communities. Hirsch's vast fortune derived from his role in creating the first rail line linking Western Europe with the Ottoman Empire, what came to be known as the Orient Express. Socializing with the likes of the Austrian crown prince Rudolph and "Bertie," Prince of Wales, Hirsch rose to the pinnacle of European aristocratic society, but also found himself the frequent target of vicious antisemitism. This was an era when what it meant to be Jewish--and what it meant to be European--were undergoing dramatic changes. Baron Hirsch was at the center of these historic shifts. While in his time Baron Hirsch was the subject of widespread praise, enraged political commentary, and conspiracy theories alike, his legacy is often overlooked. Responding to the crisis wrought by the mass departure of Jews from the Russian Empire at the turn of the century, Hirsch established the Jewish Colonization Association, with the goal of creating a refuge for the Jews in Argentina. When Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, advertised his plan to create a Jewish state (not without inspiration from Hirsch), he still wondered whether to do so in Palestine or in Argentina--and left the question open. In The Baron, Matthias Lehmann tells the story of this remarkable figure whose life and legacy provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped modern Jewish history"--
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503613805
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 316 Seiten , Illustration, Karte
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Parti Communiste Marocain ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Marokko ; Parti communiste marocain / History / 20th century ; Jewish communists / Morocco / History / 20th century ; Jews / Morocco / Politics and government / 20th century ; Nationalism and communism / Morocco / History / 20th century ; Morocco / Politics and government / 20th century ; History ; Marokko ; Parti Communiste Marocain ; Juden ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "A history of Jews in Morocco from the 1930s through the 1970s, this book traces how Jewish communists went from being outsiders (even pariahs) vis-à-vis the Makhzan to being embraced as the "Sultan's communists." Her narrative offers welcome nuance to our understanding of how Jews in Morocco were and are viewed--by their non-Jewish neighbors, by the Moroccan government, by American Jewish organizations, and even by tourists and scholars."
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503628496 , 9781503628700
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 343 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 320.54095694/09034
    Keywords: Zionismus ; Agrarkolonisation ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Mandatsgebiet ; Palästina ; Palästina ; Mandatsgebiet ; Zionismus ; Agrarkolonisation ; Kollektives Gedächtnis
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  • 13
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503613805
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 316 Seiten , Illustration, Karte
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heckman, Alma Rachel The Sultan's communists
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heckman, Alma Rachel The Sultan's communists
    DDC: 324.264/0750904
    Keywords: Parti communiste marocain History 20th century ; Jewish communists History 20th century ; Jews Politics and government 20th century ; Nationalism and communism History 20th century ; Morocco Politics and government 20th century
    Abstract: Introduction : the Sultan's communists -- Choices : fascism and anti-fascism in interwar Morocco -- Possibilities : World War II and Moroccan Jewish belonging -- Tactics : Jews and Moroccan independence -- Splinters : disillusion and Jewish political life in the new Morocco -- Cooptation : the Moroccan Cold War, Israel and human rights -- Scarification : a conclusion
    Abstract: "A history of Jews in Morocco from the 1930s through the 1970s, this book traces how Jewish communists went from being outsiders (even pariahs) vis-à-vis the Makhzan to being embraced as the "Sultan's communists." Her narrative offers welcome nuance to our understanding of how Jews in Morocco were and are viewed--by their non-Jewish neighbors, by the Moroccan government, by American Jewish organizations, and even by tourists and scholars"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503629592 , 9781503629448
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 220 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Cultural memory in the present
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kleinberg, Ethan, 1967- Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic turn
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kleinberg, Ethan, 1967 - Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic turn
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kleinberg, Ethan, 1967 - Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic turn
    DDC: 296.1/206
    Keywords: Lévinas, Emmanuel Religion ; Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Jewish philosophy 20th century ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 ; Jüdische Philosophie ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 ; Talmud ; Jüdische Philosophie
    Abstract: "In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." Bringing the two approaches together, Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud"--
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503628274
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 251 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Spinner, Samuel J. Jewish Primitivism
    DDC: 700/.4145
    Keywords: Jewish arts 20th century ; Jewish aesthetics 20th century ; Jewish literature Themes, motives 20th century ; Jewish art Themes, motives 20th century ; Primitivism in literature History 20th century ; Primitivism in art History 20th century ; Europa ; Juden ; Künste ; Ästhetik ; Primitivismus ; Vorurteil ; Geschichte 1900-1935
    Abstract: "Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "primitive" tribesmen. Primitivism--the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called "primitive," non-Western peoples who were also subjugated and denigrated--was a powerful artistic critique of the modern world and was adopted by Jewish writers and artists to explore the urgent questions surrounding their own identity and status in Europe as insiders and outsiders. Jewish primitivism found expression in a variety of forms in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature, photography, and graphic art, including in the work of figures such as Franz Kafka, Y.L. Peretz, S. An-sky, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Moï Ver. In Jewish Primitivism , Samuel J. Spinner argues that these and other Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that, by locating the savage present within Europe, challenged the idea of the threatening savage other from outside Europe on which much primitivism relied: in Jewish primitivism, the savage is already there. This book offers a new assessment of modern Jewish art and literature and shows how Jewish primitivism troubles the boundary between observer and observed, cultured and "primitive," colonizer and colonized".
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9781503628427
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, [3], 456 Seiten , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish mysticism
    Uniform Title: Mevaḳshe ha-panim
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hellner-Eshed, Melila Seekers of the face
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Helner-Eshed, Melilah, 1958 - Seekers of the face
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Helner-Eshed, Melilah, 1958 - Seekers of the face
    DDC: 296.1/62
    Keywords: Idra rabba ; Zohar ; Cabala ; Zohar
    Abstract: Introduction to the Idra rabba -- The language of divine faces -- The gaze -- Reflections on Ze'eir Anpin -- Literature, mysticism, praxis -- Overarching themes in the Idra rabba -- What is the Idra rabba trying to communicate? -- Entering the Idra rabba -- The Kings of Edom : The first appearance -- Arikh Anpin : origins -- Arikh Anpin : features of the face -- Arraying Arikh Anpin's beard -- The Kings of Edom : the second appearance -- Ze'eir Anpin comes into being -- Ze'eir Anpin's head and its features -- The tiqqunim of Ze'eir Anpin : the language of flowing bounty -- The Ancient of Ancients and Ze'eir Anpin : all is one -- Forming the male and female body -- The Kings of Edom : the third appearance -- Separation and coupling -- Sweetening judgment -- Emerging from the Idra rabba
    Abstract: "A magisterial, modern reading of the deepest mysteries in the Kabbalistic tradition. Seekers of the Face opens the profound treasure-house at the heart of Judaism's most important mystical work: the Idra Rabba (Great Gathering) of the Zohar. This is the story of the Great Assembly of mystics called to order by the master teacher and hero of the Zohar, Rabbi Shim'on bar Yochai, to align the divine faces and to heal Jewish religion. The Idra Rabba demands a radical expansion of the religious worldview, as it reveals God's faces and bodies in daring, anthropomorphic language. For the first time, Melila Hellner-Eshed makes this challenging, esoteric masterpiece meaningful for everyday readers. Hellner-Eshed expertly unpacks the Idra Rabba's rich grounding in tradition, its probing of hidden layers of consciousness and the psyche, and its striking, sacred images of the divine face. Leading readers of the Zohar on a transformative adventure in mystical experience, Seekers of the Face allows us to hear anew the Idra Rabba's bold call to heal and align the living faces of God"--
    Note: Originally published in Hebrew in 2017 under the title Mevaḳshe ha-panim , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 17
    ISBN: 1503628450 , 9781503628458
    Language: English
    Pages: 230 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Worlding the Middle East
    DDC: 940.53/145
    Keywords: Benatar, Nelly ; Benatar, Hélène Cazes ; Women lawyers Biography ; Jewish lawyers Biography ; Lawyers Biography ; World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements ; Jewish refugees History 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Refugees ; Humanitarian aid workers Biography ; Humanitarian assistance History 20th century ; Anti-Nazi movement ; HISTORY / World ; Refugees ; Humanitarian assistance ; Humanitarian aid workers ; Anti-Nazi movement ; Jewish lawyers ; Jewish refugees ; Lawyers ; Underground movements, War ; Women lawyers ; collective biographies ; Biographies ; History ; North Africa ; Morocco ; Morocco ; Casablanca
    Abstract: The early years -- 1939: The undesirables -- 1940: Refugees and resistance -- 1941: The Casablanca connection -- 1942: Stateless Morocco -- 1943: Liberating the camps -- 1944: The right to have rights -- 1945: The shock of recognition -- After the war.
    Abstract: "Years of Glory offers a rich narrative and a deeper understanding of the complex currents that shaped Jewish, North African, and world history over the course of the Second World War. The traumas of genocide, the struggle for anti-colonial liberation, and the eventual Jewish exodus from Arab lands all take on new meaning when reflected through the interstices of Benatar's life. A courageous woman with a deep moral conscience and an iron will, Nelly Benatar helped to lay the groundwork for crucial postwar efforts to build a better world over Europe's ashes"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (Seite 205-220) and index
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503610910 , 9781503608283
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 254 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 956.2/5
    Keywords: Sephardim History ; Sephardim Social conditions ; Sephardim Economic conditions ; Jews History 19th century ; Jews History 20th century ; Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 ; Izmir ; Osmanisches Reich ; Juden ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 19
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    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503613218 , 9781503613201
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 341 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 909/.04924
    Keywords: Sephardim ; Migration ; Geschichte 1900-1945 ; Mexiko ; Juden ; Geschichte 1900-1945
    Note: Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 309-330
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9781503610446 , 9781503611061
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 297 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fischbach, Michael R The Movement and the Middle East
    DDC: 956.04/81
    Keywords: Arab-Israeli conflict Foreign public opinion, American 1967-1973 ; New Left History 20th century ; Israel Foreign public opinion, American ; Israel ; USA ; Neue Linke ; Geschichte 1960-1979
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503613911 , 9781503613263
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 255 Seiten , Illustration, Karte , 23 cm
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    RVK:
    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-1970 ; Haschisch ; Drogenhandel ; Drogenkonsum ; Palästina ; Israel ; Hashish / Palestine / History / 20th century ; Hashish / Israel / History / 20th century ; Drug traffic / Palestine / History / 20th century ; Drug traffic / Israel / History / 20th century ; Recreational drug use / Palestine / History / 20th century ; Recreational drug use / Israel / History / 20th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Drug traffic ; Hashish ; Recreational drug use ; Israel ; Middle East / Palestine ; 1900-1999 ; History ; Palästina ; Israel ; Haschisch ; Drogenhandel ; Drogenkonsum ; Geschichte 1920-1970
    Abstract: "When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: Palestine became the most important hashish waystation in the region and a thriving market for consumption. British and French colonial authorities utterly failed to control the illicit trade, raising questions about the legitimacy of their mandatory regimes. The creation of the Israeli state, too, had little effect to curb illicit trade. By the 1960s, the drug trade had become a major point of contention in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and drug use widespread. "Intoxicating Zion" is the first book to tell the story of hashish in Palestine/Israel. Trafficking, use, and regulation; race, gender, and class; colonialism and nation-building all twine together in Haggai Ram's social history of the drug from the 1920s to the aftermath of the 1967 War. The hashish trade encompassed smugglers, international gangs, residents, law enforcers, and political actors, and Ram traces these flows through the interconnected realms of cross-border politics, economics, and culture. Hashish use was and is a marker of belonging and difference, and its history offers readers a unique glimpse into how the modern Middle East was made"--
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9781503613058 , 9781503611832
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 343 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.5/69089924047
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1939 ; Soziale Situation ; Bettler ; Juden ; Stigmatisierung ; Geistig behinderter Mensch ; Behinderter Mensch ; Randgruppe ; Armut ; Osteuropa ; Jews / Europe, Eastern / Social conditions / 19th century ; Jews / Europe, Eastern / Social conditions / 20th century ; Marginality, Social / Europe, Eastern / History ; Poor / Europe, Eastern / History ; Mentally ill / Europe, Eastern / History ; People with disabilities / Europe, Eastern / History ; Osteuropa ; Juden ; Soziale Situation ; Randgruppe ; Bettler ; Behinderter Mensch ; Geistig behinderter Mensch ; Armut ; Stigmatisierung ; Geschichte 1800-1939
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  • 23
    Book
    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503612006 , 1503612007
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 309 Seiten , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boulouque, Clémence, 1977 - Another modernity
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boulouque, Clémence, 1977 - Another modernity
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boulouque, Clémence, 1977 - Another modernity
    DDC: 296.1/20092
    Keywords: Benamozegh, Elia ; Cabala History ; Mysticism Judaism ; Jewish philosophy ; Universalism ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; Religions Relations ; Biografie ; Ben Amozeg, Eliyahu ben Avraham 1823-1900 ; Universalismus ; Interreligiosität ; Jüdische Philosophie
    Abstract: Introduction -- Benamozegh's texts and contexts : Morocco, the Risorgimento, and the disputed manuscript -- Universalism as an index of Jewish modernity -- Beyond binaries : Kabbalah as a tool for modernity -- Past enmity : modes of interreligious engagement and Jewish self-affirmation -- Epilogue.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-294) and index
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  • 24
    Book
    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503613676
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 273 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Elsky, Julia Writing occupation
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Elsky, Julia Writing occupation
    DDC: 840.9/21296
    Keywords: French literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; French literature History and criticism 20th century ; Jewish authors Language 20th century ; History ; French language Political aspects 20th century ; History ; World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war ; France History German occupation, 1940-1945 ; Französisch ; Literatur ; Juden ; Autor ; Auswanderer ; Geschichte 1940-1945
    Abstract: Jewish émigré writers and the French language -- A Jewish poetics of exile : Benjamin Fondane's exodus -- Accents in Jean Malaquais' carrefour Marseille -- European language and the Resistance : Romain Gary's heteroglossia -- Buried language : Elsa Triolet's bilingualism -- Displacing stereotypes : Irène Némirovsky in the Occupied Zone -- Epilogue : memory, language, and Jewish Francophonie.
    Abstract: "Among the Jewish writers who immigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism. But under the Nazi occupation of France from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish émigré writers-among them Irene Némirovsky, Benjamin Fondane, Romain Gary, Jean Malaquais, and Elsa Triolet-continued to write in their adopted language, even as the Vichy regime and Nazi occupiers denied their French identity through xenophobic and antisemitic laws. In this book, Julia Elsky argues that these writers reexamined both their Jewishness and their place as authors in France through the language in which they wrote. The group of authors Elsky considers depicted key moments in the war from their perspective as Jewish émigrés, including the June 1940 civilian flight from Paris, life in the Occupied and Southern Zones, the roundups and internment camps, and the Resistance in France and in London. Writing in French, they expressed multiple cultural, religious, and linguistic identities, challenging the boundaries between center and periphery, between French and foreign, even when their sense of belonging was being violently denied"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 25
    Book
    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503607309 , 9781503610897
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 313 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia Waste siege
    DDC: 363.72/80956942
    RVK:
    Keywords: Refuse and refuse disposal Social aspects ; Refuse and refuse disposal Political aspects ; Israel-Arab War, 1967 Occupied territories ; West Bank Social conditions ; West Bank Politics and government ; Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete ; Westjordanland ; Ethnologie ; Alltag ; Soziale Situation ; Abfallbeseitigungsrecht ; Abfallrecht ; Umweltrecht ; Nahostkonflikt ; Jom-Kippur-Krieg ; Sechstagekrieg
    Abstract: "In 1995, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Israel transferred responsibility for waste management in the West Bank to the nascent Palestinian government. While electricity, water, roads, and telecommunications remained largely controlled by Israel building new waste infrastructures and controlling the movements and effects of Palestinians' wastes became central to efforts to demonstrate the Authority's ability to be state-like. Waste Siege asks what is made possible, and what other ways of being are foreclosed, in the rubble, debris, and infrastructural fallout of decades of struggle to live a livable life among waste. Tracing Palestinians' own experiences of wastes over the past decade highlights the significance of the presence of multiple governing authorities in the West Bank-including municipalities, the Palestinian Authority, international aid organizations, NGOs, and political groups, as well as Israeli control-shows how all of these actors rule Palestinian lives by waste siege"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503614086 , 9781503613812
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 298 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moskowitz, Golan Wild visionary
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moskowitz, Golan Wild visionary
    DDC: 741.6092
    RVK:
    Keywords: Sendak, Maurice Criticism and interpretation ; Illustrators Biography ; Authors, American Biography 20th century ; Jewish gay men Biography ; Children's stories, American Authorship ; Sendak, Maurice 1928-2012
    Abstract: Introduction : from limbo to childhood -- Where the wild things acculturate : roots and wings in interwar Brooklyn -- Love in a dangerous landscape : queer kinship and survival -- Surviving the American dream : early childhood as queer lens at midcentury -- "Milk in the batter" and controversy in the making : "camp," stigma, and public spotlight in the era of social liberation -- Inside out : processing the AIDS crisis and Holocaust memory through the romantic child -- Conclusion : a garden on the edge of the world
    Abstract: "Queer Jewish Sendak newly situates Maurice Sendak's life and work in the fields of queer studies, transnational Jewish history, Holocaust memory, and childhood studies. The book iinvestigates how Sendak's writing and creative vision express intersections of queer and Jewish elements in his subjectivity during a time that preceded mainstream acceptance of gay and ethnically Eastern European Jewish cultures and desires. Golan Moskowitz considers picture books, interviews, and extensive archival materials to understand Sendak's artistic investment in the figure of the disenfranchised child"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503614147
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 316 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and c
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heckman, Alma Rachel The Sultan's communists
    Keywords: Jewish communists History 20th century ; Jews Politics and government 20th century ; Nationalism and communism History 20th century ; HISTORY / Jewish
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION -- FREQUENTLY USED ABBREVIATIONS -- THE SULTAN’S COMMUNISTS: AN INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 CHOICES: FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN INTERWAR MOROCCO -- CHAPTER 2 POSSIBILITIES: WORLD WAR II AND MOROCCAN JEWISH BELONGING -- CHAPTER 3 TACTICS: JEWS AND MOROCCAN INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 4 SPLINTERS: DISILLUSION AND JEWISH POLITICAL LIFE IN THE NEW MOROCCO -- CHAPTER 5 CO-OPTATION: THE MOROCCAN COLD WAR, ISRAEL, AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- SCARIFICATION: A CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
    Abstract: The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Abraham Serfaty, Simon Lévy, and Sion Assidon), Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and '60s, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance. The figures at the center of Heckman's narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism, Arab nationalism, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that, upon independence from France and Spain in 1956, allied itself with the United States (and, more quietly, Israel) during the Cold War, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan's Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco
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  • 28
    ISBN: 9781503612297 , 9781503612433
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 311 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kandiyoti, Dalia The converso's return
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kandiyoti, Dalia The converso's return
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kandiyoti, Dalia The converso's return
    DDC: 809/.93382
    Keywords: Literature, Modern History and criticism 21st century ; Literature, Modern History and criticism 20th century ; Marranos in literature ; Sephardim in literature ; Conversion in literature ; Ethnicity in literature ; USA ; Türkei ; Sephardim ; Religiöse Identität ; Gruppenidentität ; Englisch ; Spanisch ; Türkisch ; Französisch ; Literatur ; Sephardim ; Konversion ; Katholizismus ; Mittelalter ; Geschichte 1990-2020 ; USA ; Hispanos ; Literatur ; Sephardim ; Konversion ; Katholizismus ; Mittelalter ; Geschichte 1990-2020
    Abstract: Doubles, disguises, splits : conversos in modern literature and thought -- Latinx Sephardism and the absent archive : Crypto-Jews and the transamerican Latinx imagination -- Return to Sepharad : blood, convergences, and embodied remnants -- Sephardis' converso pasts : the critical genealogical imagination -- Ottoman-Spanish and Jewish-Muslim entanglements : conversos in contemporary Turkish fiction
    Abstract: "The Converso's Return is a study of recent fiction and memoirs by U.S. Latinx, Spanish, French, and Turkish authors about the current revival of Iberian Jewish history, in particular, the largely forced conversions of Jews to Catholicism in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Spain and Portugal. This seemingly remote history has been the topic of a substantial library of contemporary literary and popular writing, especially since the 1992 quincentennial commemorations of the 1492 conversions and expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain and the conquest of the Americas. The recent claiming of Sephardi converso ancestry by Christian (and to a much lesser extent Muslim) descendants in the Americas, Europe, and Turkey has taken place simultaneously with the fictional and testimonial writing about conversos and their descendants by authors on several continents. What is it about conversos that has sparked their imagination? What do we learn and rethink about conversions' afterlives including their resurgence in the present, and how does this help us understand how and why we return to and resuscitate the past? The literary writing in English, Spanish, French, and Turkish about the fate of the converts through the centuries that The Converso's Return investigates together help us complicate ideas about conversos, contemporary historical consciousness, the role of genealogy in culture, collective memory, missing/imagined archives, Sephardi identities, and world literature"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 328 Seiten , Fotografien, Illustrationen, Karte
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Inschrift ; Jerusalem
    Abstract: In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to organize society and subjectivity. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims' graffiti, and sacred banners gave way to street markers, shop signs, identity papers, and visiting cards that each sought to define and categorize urban space and people. "A City in Fragments" tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera that transformed the city over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As these urban texts became a tool in the service of capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism, the affinities of Arabic and Hebrew were forgotten and these sister-languages found themselves locked in a bitter war. Looking at the writing of—and literally on—Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative and expansive history of the city, a fresh take on modern urban texts, and a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.
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