Imagine a traditional Jewish community on the eve of the 19th
century, and you will most likely picture the Eastern European
shtetl. This prevailing European-oriented view obscures the fact
that Jewry is a coat of many colors, with many diverse yet
traditional manifestations, including the numerous Jewish
communities of North Africa and Southwest Asia. While we know that
in recent centuries such countries as Iraq, Tunisia, and Morocco
contained a large proportion of the Jewish people, and that
communities such as Fez, Aleppo, Tunis, and Baghdad were major
centers of Jewish culture, our detailed knowledge of these Jewries
remains limited.
Jews Among Muslims gathers together some of the most insightful
work describing the life and culture of Jews in the traditional
Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Spanning the
vast belt from Morocco to Afghanistan, which has been dominated by
Islam since the seventh and eighth centuries, Jewish communities
have long coexisted alongside their Muslim neighbors. Revealing
Jewish life in such countries as Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Iran,
Tunisia, Syria, and Kurdistan, Jews Among Muslims tells us much
about Jewish religious life and leadership, economic status,
connections to the state, social relations with surrouding ethnic
groups, internal community organization, and family and gender
roles.
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