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Jewish Libya : memory and identity in text and image / edited by Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, and Judith Roumani.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern Jewish historyPublisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815654278
  • 0815654278
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish Libya.DDC classification:
  • 961.2/004924 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.L44 J48 2018
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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