| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 278 pages :) illustrations |
| Series |
Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 54 |
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Brill's series in Jewish studies ; 54.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations for Archival Sources -- Various Va'adot: An Explanatory Note -- Glossary of Terms -- Rulers of Afghanistan (1747-1973) -- Note on Hebrew Transliteration -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Entrepreneurial Minorities and Anti-Semitism in Afghanistan -- Encountering Nationalist Sentiments in Afghanistan -- Historiographical Trends -- Archival Sources -- Chapter 2 Modern Jewish Settlement in Afghanistan: Origins and Customs -- Theories on the Origins of Afghanistani Jewry -- Jewish Settlement in Mashhad -- Jewish Settlement in Afghanistan -- The Forcible Conversion of the Mashhadi Community -- The Persian Siege of Herat -- Daily Life among the Jews of Afghanistan -- Betrothal and Marriage Customs -- Women's Experiences -- Men's Lives -- Communal Structures and Social Control -- Peddlers and Merchants -- Inter-Communal Ties: The Turkmen-Jewish Relationship -- International Connections through Trade -- Chapter 3 A Survey of the Modern Political and Economic History of Afghanistan (1747-1933) -- Afghanistan's Foundation -- The First Anglo-Afghan War: Encountering the British Empire -- Dost Muhammad Khan: Consolidating Afghanistan's Borders -- Second Anglo-Afghan War: Limiting Afghanistan's Independence -- Shattering Afghanistan's Ethnic Mosaic: The Rule of the 'Iron Amir' -- Negotiating ʻAbd al-Rahman's Rule: The Challenges to the Jewish Community -- Habibullah Khan: Edging Towards Full Sovereignty -- The Jewish Community under Habibullah: A Resumption of Commerce -- World War I and Its Political Legacy -- Amanullah: Imagination without Grounding -- Minorities under Amanullah: A Time of Tolerance -- Hindus -- The Hazara -- Jews -- Amanullah's Encouragement of Education -- Patterns of Jewish Education -- A Less Tolerated Minority: The Ahmadiyas -- Reform and Revolt -- Habibullah Kalakani: Reign of Terror |
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Minorities under Kalakani -- Muhammad Nadir's Rise -- The Rule of Muhammad Nadir Shah: Pacification and Consolidation -- Chapter 4 Northern Afghanistan's Soviet Refugee Crisis (1932-1936) -- Causes of the Refugee Crisis -- Consequences for Central Asian Jewry -- Afghan Response to Refugees -- Muslim Refugees -- Christian Refugees -- Jewish Refugees: Petitioning for Assistance -- Viewing Refugees as Spies: Afghan and British Perceptions -- Comparing Refugee Policy in Afghanistan and Persia -- The Expulsion of the Local Jewish Population -- Riot in Herat during the Summer of 1935 -- Implications of the Expulsion of the Afghanistani Jews from the North -- British Jewry's Reactions to the Afghanistani Community -- Official British Response -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Afghan Economic Policies in the 1930s -- Economic Policies: The Bank-i Milli and the Rise of the MonopolySystem -- The Shirkat System's Impact on the Karakul Trade -- Political Aims of the Monopoly System: Limiting Soviet Influence -- Case Study: Jacob Pinhas, a Jewish Karakul Trader -- Consequences of the Monopoly System: An Economic Downturn -- Successful Opposition to the Shirkat System: The Fruit Trade -- Da Afghanistan Bank: A Failed Check on the Power of the Bank-i Milli -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 World War II's Impact on Afghanistan -- Pre-War Anxiety -- German Influence -- The Nazi Party in Afghanistan -- Nazi Influenced Anti-Semitism -- 'Abd al-Majid Khan: Primary Negotiator with the Third Reich -- Link between anti-Communism and anti-Semitism in Afghan Policy -- Replacing German Specialists with Jews: First Contact between Afghanistan and the Yishuv -- The Precarious Situation of Jews in Afghanistan during World War II -- Refugee Crisis in India: A Precarious Medical and Legal Situation -- Causes of Refugee Crisis -- Deportation from Peshawar -- Negotiating with British Authorities |
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Conflict between the Jewish Agency and Afghanistani Va'adot in Eretz Yisrael -- Legal Emigration from Afghanistan: The Role of JewishOrganizations -- Persecution in the Muslim World -- Afghan Rationale for Legal Emigration: Gaining Supportfor Pashtunistan -- Prejudice against the Jewish Community Lessened through Afghan Myth of Ethnogenesis -- Emigration Commences -- Afghanistani Jews Entering and Languishing in Iran -- Situation Improves After 1952 -- Forcible Conversion in the 1950s: Tova Shamualoff's Kidnapping -- The Last Jew of Kabul -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Patterns of Jewish Correspondencein the 1930s -- Bibliography -- Plate Section: Daily Life in 1940s Kabul -- Index |
| Summary |
This book describes the situation of Jews in Afghanistan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly 1839-1952. It examines the political, economic and social conditions they faced as religious minorities. The work focuses upon harsh governmental economic policies of the 1930s and 1940s spearheaded by 'Abd al-Majid Khan Zabuli which caused the impoverishment and suffering of both the local community and refugees from Soviet Central Asia. The question of Nazi influence in Afghanistan is addressed, with the author arguing that it was mainly limited to the economic sphere. An examination of the appeal of Zionism and the community's immigration to Israel is included |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-264) and index |
| Subject |
Jews -- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century
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Jews -- Afghanistan -- History -- 20th century
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Afghanistan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Ethnic relations.
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Jews.
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Jews -- Persecutions.
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Afghanistan.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015020191 |
| ISBN |
9789004288669 |
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900428866X |
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9789004292383 |
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9004292381 |
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