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Francophone Sephardic Fiction:Writing Migration, Diaspora, and
Modernity approaches modern Sephardic literature in a comparative
way to draw outsimilarities and differences among selected
francophone novelists from various countries,with a focus on North
Africa. The definition of Sepharad here is broader than just Spain:
itembraces Jews whose ancestors had lived in North Africa for
centuries, even before thearrival of Islam, and who still today
trace their allegiance to ways of being Jewish that goback to
Babylon, as do those whose ancestors spent a few hundred years in
Iberia. Theauthor traces the strong influence of oral storytelling
on modern novelists of the twentiethand early twenty-first
centuries and explores the idea of the portable homeland, as exile
andmigration engulfed the long-rooted Sephardic communities. The
author also examinesdiaspora concepts, how modernity and
post-modernity threatened traditional ways of life,and how humor
and an active return into history for the novel have done more than
merenostalgia could to enliven the portable homeland of modern
francophone Sephardicfiction.
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in
the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To
the east of the province, the Jews of Pitigliano, a four
hundred-year-old community, were hidden for almost a year by
sympathetic farmers in barns and caves. None of those in hiding
were arrested and all survived the Fascist hunt for Jews. In the
west, near the provincial capital of Grosseto, almost a hundred
Italian and foreign Jews were imprisoned in 1943-1944 in the
bishop's seminary, which he had rented to the Fascists for that
purpose. About half of them, though they had thought that the
bishop would protect them, were deported with his knowledge by
Fascists and Nazis to Auschwitz. Thus, the Holocaust reached into
this provincial corner as it did into all parts of Italy still
under Italian Fascist control. This book is based on new interviews
and research in local and national archives.
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in
the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To
the east of the province, the Jews of Pitigliano, a four
hundred-year-old community, were hidden for almost a year by
sympathetic farmers in barns and caves. None of those in hiding
were arrested and all survived the Fascist hunt for Jews. In the
west, near the provincial capital of Grosseto, almost a hundred
Italian and foreign Jews were imprisoned in 1943-1944 in the
bishop's seminary, which he had rented to the Fascists for that
purpose. About half of them, though they had thought that the
bishop would protect them, were deported with his knowledge by
Fascists and Nazis to Auschwitz. Thus, the Holocaust reached into
this provincial corner as it did into all parts of Italy still
under Italian Fascist control. This book is based on new interviews
and research in local and national archives.
Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in
1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince
of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late
fourteenth century. Fighting battles in the service of kings,
facing imprisonment, and narrowly escaping death, the prince
travels the Islamic world absorbing lessons, often painfully, on
how to govern himself, as well as a country. At the same time,
al-Mammi engages on a spiritual journey to obtain inner wisdom
rather than material riches. Memmi chronicles the prince's fortunes
as they rise and fall, drawing upon the traditions of Maghrebian
storytelling and Arabian tales to offer a highly imaginative and
allegorical novel that provocatively blends history with fiction.
In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their
complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began
with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jews had resided in
Libya since Phoenician times, seventeen centuries before their
encounter with the Arab conquest in AD 644-646. Their disappearance
from Libya, like most other Jewish communities in North Africa and
the Middle East, led to their fragmentation across the globe as
well as reconstitution in two major centers, Israel and Italy.
Distinctive Libyan Jewish traditions and a broad cultural heritage
have survived and prospered in different places in Israel and in
Rome, Italy, where Libyan Jews are recognized for their vibrant
contribution to Italian Jewry. Nevertheless, with the passage of
time, memories fade among the younger generations and multiple
identities begin to overshadow those inherited over the centuries.
Capturing the essence of Libyan Jewish cultural heritage, this
anthology aims to reawaken and preserve the memories of this
community. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars who explore
the community's history, its literature and dialect, topography and
cuisine, and the difficult negotiation of trauma and memory. In
shedding new light on this now-fragmented culture and society, this
collection commemorates and celebrates vital elements of Libyan
Jewish heritage and encourages a lively intergenerational exchange
among the many Jews of Libyan origin worldwide.
In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their
complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began
with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jews had resided in
Libya since Phoenician times, seventeen centuries before their
encounter with the Arab conquest in AD 644-646. Their disappearance
from Libya, like most other Jewish communities in North Africa and
the Middle East, led to their fragmentation across the globe as
well as reconstitution in two major centers, Israel and Italy.
Distinctive Libyan Jewish traditions and a broad cultural heritage
have survived and prospered in different places in Israel and in
Rome, Italy, where Libyan Jews are recognized for their vibrant
contribution to Italian Jewry. Nevertheless, with the passage of
time, memories fade among the younger generations and multiple
identities begin to overshadow those inherited over the centuries.
Capturing the essence of Libyan Jewish cultural heritage, this
anthology aims to reawaken and preserve the memories of this
community. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars who explore
the community's history, its literature and dialect, topography and
cuisine, and the difficult negotiation of trauma and memory. In
shedding new light on this now-fragmented culture and society, this
collection commemorates and celebrates vital elements of Libyan
Jewish heritage and encourages a lively intergenerational exchange
among the many Jews of Libyan origin worldwide.
Internationally renowned scholar Renzo De Felice's pioneering study
of the Jews of Libya is, in many ways, a microcosm of the major
sources of conflict in the modern Middle East. This is the first
English translation of Ebrei in un paese arabo, originally
published by Il Mulino, Bologna, in 1978. The author's
broad-ranging and meticulous research has enabled him to
reconstruct the contemporary history of the Jews in Libya with an
incredible richness of detail, bringing into vivid relief the
social, religious, cultural, and political lives of a people caught
between centuries of tradition and a series of governments bent on
plunging them headfirst into the modern world. This story-fraught
with the passion, drama, tragicomedy, and conflict of a society in
transition-will be an invaluable resource for scholars in Middle
Eastern studies, Jewish studies, and contemporary European history.
The wealth of documentation, much of it previously unknown or
unpublished, makes this a particularly useful book.
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