Richard I. Cohen (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912628
- eISBN:
- 9780190912659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0047
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism, Religion and Society
This chapter reviews the book The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (2015), by Ethan B. Katz. In The Burdens of Brotherhood, Katz explores Jewish-Muslim relations ...
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This chapter reviews the book The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (2015), by Ethan B. Katz. In The Burdens of Brotherhood, Katz explores Jewish-Muslim relations in twentieth-century France, challenging conceptions of these relations as fixed and necessarily hostile. Katz chronicles the development of sociocultural spaces that were shared by North African Jews and Muslims in urban France from the Great War until the end of the twentieth century. He questions the notion that the two groups necessarily comprehended their interactions as those between “Jews” and “Muslims,” arguing that, in certain situations, Jews and Muslims perceived each other as members of a shared North African community.Less
This chapter reviews the book The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (2015), by Ethan B. Katz. In The Burdens of Brotherhood, Katz explores Jewish-Muslim relations in twentieth-century France, challenging conceptions of these relations as fixed and necessarily hostile. Katz chronicles the development of sociocultural spaces that were shared by North African Jews and Muslims in urban France from the Great War until the end of the twentieth century. He questions the notion that the two groups necessarily comprehended their interactions as those between “Jews” and “Muslims,” arguing that, in certain situations, Jews and Muslims perceived each other as members of a shared North African community.
Jessica M. Marglin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300218466
- eISBN:
- 9780300225082
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300218466.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African History
This book presents a previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived. Morocco ...
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This book presents a previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived. Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, the book charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society—until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their legal mobility. Drawing on a broad range of archival documents, the book expands our understanding of contemporary relations between Jews and Muslims and changes the way we think about Jewish history, the Middle East, and the nature of legal pluralism.Less
This book presents a previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived. Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, the book charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society—until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their legal mobility. Drawing on a broad range of archival documents, the book expands our understanding of contemporary relations between Jews and Muslims and changes the way we think about Jewish history, the Middle East, and the nature of legal pluralism.
Aaron W. Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190684464
- eISBN:
- 9780190684495
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190684464.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Judaism
This chapter introduces Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam. It makes the case that the study of Muslim and Jewish relations is ultimately an issue of comparison and, as ...
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This chapter introduces Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam. It makes the case that the study of Muslim and Jewish relations is ultimately an issue of comparison and, as a result, ought to be illumined by the field of religious studies. Despite this, and perhaps paradoxically, there are numerous tensions inherent to the particularism of specific subfields and the generalization demanded by the larger field of religious studies. The chapter then examines the regnant paradigm used to describe Jewish–Muslim relations in the premodern period, that of symbiosis, and signals how the study that follows attempts to undermine said paradigm with an eye to rewriting the history of the early interactions between Jews and Arabs.Less
This chapter introduces Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam. It makes the case that the study of Muslim and Jewish relations is ultimately an issue of comparison and, as a result, ought to be illumined by the field of religious studies. Despite this, and perhaps paradoxically, there are numerous tensions inherent to the particularism of specific subfields and the generalization demanded by the larger field of religious studies. The chapter then examines the regnant paradigm used to describe Jewish–Muslim relations in the premodern period, that of symbiosis, and signals how the study that follows attempts to undermine said paradigm with an eye to rewriting the history of the early interactions between Jews and Arabs.
Aomar Boum
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190876036
- eISBN:
- 9780190943127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190876036.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter discusses the movement of cultural renovation and marketing of Jewish heritage in Tunisia and Morocco and its ties to the development of a Jewish cultural tourism that targets Israeli ...
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This chapter discusses the movement of cultural renovation and marketing of Jewish heritage in Tunisia and Morocco and its ties to the development of a Jewish cultural tourism that targets Israeli tourists of North African and Ashkenazi descent. It also analyzes the political and social debates about Israeli relations with Morocco and Tunisia, and Jewish-Muslim relations that have been generated by this movement of cultural preservation. This chapter argues that this movement has a philo-Semitic dimension given its focus on Jewish capital and tourism revenues rather than on a serious national debate about the place of Jews as citizens in Morocco and Tunisia. While Jews are admired as successful business owners and traders, they are socially and religiously stigmatized because of their direct or indirect links to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Therefore, negative perceptions of Jews are seen largely through debates revolving around the appropriateness of normalizing relations with Israel, especially after the Arab uprisings. Even with the damaging political impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict on perceptions of Jews in Morocco and Tunisia, governments are still using their countries’ historical Jewish heritage to market a living Jewish culture in North African cities and villages.Less
This chapter discusses the movement of cultural renovation and marketing of Jewish heritage in Tunisia and Morocco and its ties to the development of a Jewish cultural tourism that targets Israeli tourists of North African and Ashkenazi descent. It also analyzes the political and social debates about Israeli relations with Morocco and Tunisia, and Jewish-Muslim relations that have been generated by this movement of cultural preservation. This chapter argues that this movement has a philo-Semitic dimension given its focus on Jewish capital and tourism revenues rather than on a serious national debate about the place of Jews as citizens in Morocco and Tunisia. While Jews are admired as successful business owners and traders, they are socially and religiously stigmatized because of their direct or indirect links to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Therefore, negative perceptions of Jews are seen largely through debates revolving around the appropriateness of normalizing relations with Israel, especially after the Arab uprisings. Even with the damaging political impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict on perceptions of Jews in Morocco and Tunisia, governments are still using their countries’ historical Jewish heritage to market a living Jewish culture in North African cities and villages.
Tabea Alexa Linhard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804787390
- eISBN:
- 9780804791885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804787390.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This chapter focuses on literary representations of Jewish women in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. Contrasting “Sultana Cohén's Lyrical Itinerary,” a text that Luis Antonio de Vega published in ...
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This chapter focuses on literary representations of Jewish women in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. Contrasting “Sultana Cohén's Lyrical Itinerary,” a text that Luis Antonio de Vega published in 1938 in the Falangist magazine Vértice, Ángel Vázquez's 1976 novel Juanita Narboni's Wretched Life, and Farida Benlyazid's 2005 film version of Vázquez's work, the chapter establishes a dialogue among literary, visual, and historical representations of Jewish women in the Protectorate in order to critique a colonialist narrative that, as Benlyazid's film shows, persists today. The analysis reveals the ways in which constructions of a Muslim and Jewish “other” shifted according to historical contingencies, specifically during the Spanish Civil War, when the discourse of a Spanish-Moroccan “brotherhood” was prominent in Nationalist propaganda; during World War II, when Spanish officials voiced anti-Semitic rhetoric in both the Iberian Peninsula and the Protectorate, during the decolonization of Africa, and in the present day.Less
This chapter focuses on literary representations of Jewish women in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. Contrasting “Sultana Cohén's Lyrical Itinerary,” a text that Luis Antonio de Vega published in 1938 in the Falangist magazine Vértice, Ángel Vázquez's 1976 novel Juanita Narboni's Wretched Life, and Farida Benlyazid's 2005 film version of Vázquez's work, the chapter establishes a dialogue among literary, visual, and historical representations of Jewish women in the Protectorate in order to critique a colonialist narrative that, as Benlyazid's film shows, persists today. The analysis reveals the ways in which constructions of a Muslim and Jewish “other” shifted according to historical contingencies, specifically during the Spanish Civil War, when the discourse of a Spanish-Moroccan “brotherhood” was prominent in Nationalist propaganda; during World War II, when Spanish officials voiced anti-Semitic rhetoric in both the Iberian Peninsula and the Protectorate, during the decolonization of Africa, and in the present day.
Evan Rapport
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199379033
- eISBN:
- 9780199379064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379033.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, History, American
Central Asian classical music (broadly called maqom or more specifically, Shashmaqom) is the foremost music of presentation for Bukharian Jews, representing the community on New York's ...
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Central Asian classical music (broadly called maqom or more specifically, Shashmaqom) is the foremost music of presentation for Bukharian Jews, representing the community on New York's multiculturalist “world music” stages. Maqom is historically the primary space for Bukharians to navigate relationships with their “others,” especially Muslim Central Asians, and the music continues to be a space for intercultural exchange as Bukharians' “others” shift in the new environment. Also, the Shashmaqom in particular was used in the Soviet Union to help define the new Uzbek and Tajik nationalities, and Bukharian Jews in have adopted the nationalistic uses of maqom in New York. To satisfy these representational needs, maqom is increasingly becoming a small heritage repertoire, although musicians are finding ways to adapt the music to the changing needs of the immigrant community.Less
Central Asian classical music (broadly called maqom or more specifically, Shashmaqom) is the foremost music of presentation for Bukharian Jews, representing the community on New York's multiculturalist “world music” stages. Maqom is historically the primary space for Bukharians to navigate relationships with their “others,” especially Muslim Central Asians, and the music continues to be a space for intercultural exchange as Bukharians' “others” shift in the new environment. Also, the Shashmaqom in particular was used in the Soviet Union to help define the new Uzbek and Tajik nationalities, and Bukharian Jews in have adopted the nationalistic uses of maqom in New York. To satisfy these representational needs, maqom is increasingly becoming a small heritage repertoire, although musicians are finding ways to adapt the music to the changing needs of the immigrant community.
Kimberly A. Arkin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804786003
- eISBN:
- 9780804787901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804786003.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
The problems and paradoxes of French Republican identity in the early 21st century made Jewish Frenchness contingent on reinforcing the distinction between Jewishness and Arabness. Jewish ...
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The problems and paradoxes of French Republican identity in the early 21st century made Jewish Frenchness contingent on reinforcing the distinction between Jewishness and Arabness. Jewish institutional elites and Sephardi day school youth worked to produce this distinction, but in ways that were divergent and internally contradictory, thus compounding the problem of contingent Jewish Frenchness.Less
The problems and paradoxes of French Republican identity in the early 21st century made Jewish Frenchness contingent on reinforcing the distinction between Jewishness and Arabness. Jewish institutional elites and Sephardi day school youth worked to produce this distinction, but in ways that were divergent and internally contradictory, thus compounding the problem of contingent Jewish Frenchness.
Evan Rapport
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199379033
- eISBN:
- 9780199379064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379033.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, History, American
A pilgrimage to Jewish cemeteries in Tashkent, Samarkand, Shahrisabz, and Bukhara serves as an opportunity to reconsider the New York immigrant community in terms of the global Bukharian diaspora. ...
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A pilgrimage to Jewish cemeteries in Tashkent, Samarkand, Shahrisabz, and Bukhara serves as an opportunity to reconsider the New York immigrant community in terms of the global Bukharian diaspora. The trip reinforces several key points: music and poetry continually express complex ideas of diaspora, Bukharian Jews' adaptation strategies in New York are based in their Central Asian experiences, and professional musicians have a special role in guiding the community and serving as intercultural emissaries.Less
A pilgrimage to Jewish cemeteries in Tashkent, Samarkand, Shahrisabz, and Bukhara serves as an opportunity to reconsider the New York immigrant community in terms of the global Bukharian diaspora. The trip reinforces several key points: music and poetry continually express complex ideas of diaspora, Bukharian Jews' adaptation strategies in New York are based in their Central Asian experiences, and professional musicians have a special role in guiding the community and serving as intercultural emissaries.
