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The Last Arab Jews

The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia

By: Abraham L. Udovitch,Lucette Valensi,Jacques Perez

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The Last Arab Jews

The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia

By: Abraham L. Udovitch,Lucette Valensi,Jacques Perez

The once numerous and vital Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia have disappeared, succumbing during the past century to the assimilating temptations of French culture, or, more recently, to the pressures of migration. Only the two communities of the island of Jerba still remain. Only they have succeeded in maintaining and reproducing their religious and social institutions, in adjusting to the new realities around them while preserving intact their cultural, communal identity. This lavishly-illustrated book, first published in 1984, portrays the life and history of two Jerban Jewish villages and explores the paradoxes of their continuity. How and why are they so fully Jewish while, at the same time, so thoroughly embedded in their Muslim, North African environment? Although its focus is one small ethnic group, the implications of this study extend to the broad subject of relations between Arabs and Jews in modern times.

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Routledge

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1317304535

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9781317304531

The Birth of the Despot

Venice and the Sublime Porte

By: Lucette Valensi

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The Birth of the Despot

Venice and the Sublime Porte

By: Lucette Valensi

In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice's pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists—Venice and the Sublime Porte—face-to-face. Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans, in which Judith liberates her besieged town by killing the Turk Holofernes, serves as the organizing metaphor in Valensi's study of how Venice's perceptions of its rival changed. Valensi shows how Venice's initial admiration for the sultan and his orderly empire metamorphosed into revulsion at a monstrous tyrant.

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Cornell University Press

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1501717219

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The Birth of the Despot

Venice and the Sublime Porte

By: Lucette Valensi

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Jewish Memories

By: Lucette Valensi,Nathan Wachtel

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Jewish Memories

By: Lucette Valensi,Nathan Wachtel

A jewel of a book. . . . For oral history the memoirs are surprisingly concrete: full of local color, and invariably interesting. Since relatively little is known in this country about the fate of the Sephardi Jews, this volume is all the more welcome . . . an attractive and valuable contribution to the history of the Jews in our time."--Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University "A jewel of a book. . . . For oral history the memoirs are surprisingly concrete: full of local color, and invariably interesting. Since relatively little is known in this country about the fate of the Sephardi Jews, this volume is all the more welcome . . . an attractive and valuable contribution to the history of the Jews in our time."--Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University

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0520066375

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9780520066373

The Last Arab Jews

The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia

By: Abraham L. Udovitch,Lucette Valensi,Jacques Perez

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The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia

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1317304543

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9781317304548

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