North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century
：The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria
Publication subTitle ：The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria
Author： Laskier Michael M.
Publisher： NYU Press
Publication year： 1997
E-ISBN: 9780814765364
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814751299
Subject： B929 宗教史、宗教地理;B985 Judaism (Hebrew);C91 Sociology;K4 African History;Q98 Anthropology
Keyword： 非洲史,宗教史、宗教地理,犹太教（希伯来教）,社会学,人类学
Language： ENG
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Description
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new Israeli state through their settlements, often becoming the victims of Arab-Israeli conflicts and terrorist attacks. Their contribution and struggles are, in many ways, akin to the challenges emigrants from the former Soviet Union are currently encountering in Israel. Today, these North African Jewish communities are a vital force in Israeli society and politics as well as in France and Quebec. In the first major political history of North African Jewry, Michael Laskier paints a compelling picture of three Third World Jewish communities, tracing their exposure to modernization and their relations with the Muslims and the European settlers. Perhaps the most extraordinary feature of this volume is its astonishing array of primary sources. Laskier draws on a wide range of archives in Israel, Europe, and the United States and on personal interviews with former community leaders, Maghribi Zionists, and Jewish outsiders who lived and worked among North Africa's Jews to recreate the experiences and development of these communities.Among the subjects covered:--Jewish conditions before and during colonial penetration by the French and Spanish;--anti-Semitism in North Africa, as promoted both by European s
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