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Jews of Libya by Maurice M. Roumani
Jews of Libya by Maurice M. Roumani
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Jews of Libya

Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement
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This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938-52), a period crucial to understanding Libyan Jewry's evolution into a community playing significant roles in Israel, Italy and in relation with Qaddhafi's Libya. Against a background of a reform conscious Ottoman administration (1835-1911) and subsequent stirrings of modernisation under Italian colonial influence (1911-43), the Jews of Libya began to experience rapid change following the application of fascist racial laws of 1938, the onset of war-related calamities and violent expressions of Libyan pan-Arabism, culminating in mass migration to Israel in the period 1949-52. By focusing on key socio-economic and political dimensions of this process, the author reveals the capacity of Libyan Jewry to adapt to and integrate into new environments without losing its unique and historical traditions.

Author Biography:

Maurice M Roumani, born in Benghazi, Libya, is a Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology and the Middle East at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel where he is also the founder and Director of the J.R. Elyachar Center for the Study of Sephardi Heritage. A graduate of Brandeis University, the University of Chicago and the University of London, he has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University.
Release date Australia
May 15th, 2009
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Foreword by Martin Gilbert
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
b/w photos & facsimile documents; b/w photos & facsimile documents
Imprint
Sussex Academic Press
Pages
310
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Dimensions
229x152x18
ISBN-13
9781845193676
Product ID
3122964

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