The Alliance Israelite Universelle, a French-Jewish organization
founded in 1860, occupies a crucial place in the history of
Sephardi communities in the modern period. In the fifty years after
its creation, the Alliance established a vast network of schools in
the lands of Islam for the purpose of "civilizing" the local Jewish
communities and remaking them in the idealized self-image of French
Jewry.
This study, drawing on the author's extensive research in the
archives of the Alliance in Paris, focuses on the work of the
Alliance among Turkish Jewry, one of the communities most strongly
affected by the organizations' activities. Although the Alliance
played a conclusive role in the Westernization of Turkish Jews, it
was also the unwitting catalyst for the emrgence of new political
movements such as Zionism, which turned away from the Alliance's
ideology and ultimately threatened the survival of its schools.
This book illuminates an important episode in the history of
Sephardi and French Jewries as they interacted through the Alliance
Israelite Universelle and draws important conclusions about the
transformation of European as well as Middle Eastern Jewries in the
modern era."
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