Jews in Arab Countries

The Great Uprooting

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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In this new history, French author Georges Bensoussan retells the story of what life was like for Jews in the Arab world since 1850. During the early years of this time, it was widely believed that Jewish life in Arab lands was peaceful. Jews were protected by law and suffered much less violence, persecution, and inequality. Bensoussan takes on this myth and looks back over the history of Jewish-Arab relations in Arab countries. He finds that there is little truth to the myth and forwards a nuanced history of interrelationship that is not only diverse, but deals with local differences in cultural, religious, and political practice. Bensoussan divides the work into sections that cover 1850 to the end of WWI, from 1919 to the eve of WWII and then from WWII to the establishment of Israel and the Arab Wars. A new afterword brings the history of Jewish and Arab relations into the present day. Bensoussan has determined that the history of Jews in Arab countries is a history of slowly disintegrating relationships, increasing tension, violence, and persecution.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-04
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt885 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Antisemitism
Antal sidor512
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253038579

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Georges Bensoussan is a historian and for many years served as the Editorial Director of the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France. He is author of a number of notable works on modern Jewish history, including Une histoire intellectuelle et politique du sionisme. 1860-1940 [An intellectual and political history of Zionism, 1860-1940] and Les Juifs du monde arabe. La question interdite [The Jews of the Arab world: the forbidden question].Andrew Halper is a London based translator and magistrate. Educated in Canada and France, he worked for many years as a lawyer, and served in the Canadian diplomatic corps.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: The Gradual Erosion of Tradition, 1850 – 19141. "Barbaric Lands"2. Colonized3. From the Enlightenment to the Alliance4. Jewish "Subjects"Part Two: The Disintegration of a World, 1914 – 1975Section One: The Echo of the Great War, 1914 – 19395. "A New Jewish Man"?6. Between Europeans and Arabs: Finding a Space?7. The 1930s: Years of Tension8. A Turn for the WorseSection Two: Shock and Collapse, 1939 – 19759. In the Wake of War, 1939 – 194510. The Turning Point, 1945 – 194911. Captive Communities: From 1948 to the 1960s12. Flight13. The Final ActAppendix: MapsBibliography

"There have been a number of attempts to tell this story in historiographically sound ways, and to show that the common 'narrative' of the tolerant Arab world and the relatively peaceful existence of the Jews in its midst is historically inaccurate. These attempts have not had much success in changing the common perception of the story of the Jews in the Arab countries. Georges Bensoussan's contribution to this discussion is probably the most comprehensive and most important to date. The story he tells is compelling, enormously rich, and well documented."—Elhanan Yakira, author of Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel