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Histories of the Jews of Egypt - An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s (Hardcover)
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Histories of the Jews of Egypt - An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History
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Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and
diverse Jewry lived in Egypt - mainly in the two cities of
Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural
history of the country. Histories of the Jews of Egypt argues that
this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as "an imagined bourgeoisie".
It demonstrates how, from the late nineteenth century up to the
1950s, a resilient bourgeois imaginary developed and influenced the
lives of Egyptian Jews both in the public arena, in institutions
such as the school, and in the home. From the schools of the
Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Cairo lycee francais to
Alexandrian marriage contracts and interwar Zionist newspapers -
this book explains how this imaginary was characterised by a great
capacity to adapt to the evolutions of late nineteenth and early
twentieth century Egypt, but later deteriorated alongside
increasingly strong Arab nationalism and the political upheavals
that the country experienced from the 1940s onwards. Offering a
novel perspective on the history of modern Egypt and its Jews, and
unravelling too often forgotten episodes and personalities which
contributed to the making of an incredibly diverse and lively
Jewish diaspora at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East,
this book is of interest to scholars of Modern Egypt, Jewish
History and of Mediterranean History.
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