Title Histories of the Jews of Egypt : an Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s / Dario Miccoli

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ; 18 Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ; 18. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'as we are dealing with the country called Egypt'; Bourgeois modernities across the Mediterranean; Education, family and the power of the imagination; Histories in the archive; 1 In a bizarre country: the Jews of Egypt and the Alliance Israélite Universelle; Neither Eastern, nor Western: turn-of-the-century Egyptian Jews and the teachers of the Alliance; Between millet and bourgeoisie: the Alliance and the Jews of Cairo, 1890s-1920s Women of valour? Class, gender and Jewishness in Alexandria, 1900-1920Provincial modernities: the Jews of Tantah, 1905-1939; Conclusion; 2 Cosmopolitan imaginaries: urban life, schools and feelings of belonging; Anti-Semitism, cosmopolitanism and the making of an Alexandrian Jewish elite, 1880s-1920s; 'Being fused but not confused': the Mission Laïque Française in interwar Cairo; From Cairo to Paris and beyond: Jewish students of the Mission Laïque Française in the early 1930s; 'Two branches of a same tree': Maurice Fargeon and the relations between Jews and Muslims, 1938-1943; Conclusion 3 A moral laboratory: religion, family and social respectabilityRabbi Eliyahu Hazan and the regulation of the Jewish marriage in turn-of-the-century Alexandria; 'The ambition to be an honest man': Jewish gentlemen in Cairo, 1919-1927; Conversions, interclass marriages and the quest for a noble past, 1920s-1940s; 'A community that goes to pot': Rabbi David Prato and the Jews of Alexandria, 1927-1936; Conclusion; 4 Extremely close and incredibly far: Egypt, la Palestine, Israel; Jews and other Jews: Zionist refugees in First World War Alexandria 'A bit of Palestine already coming towards us': women, youth and Zionism in La Tribune Juive, 1936-1948'Strangers in our own land'?: Zionism, Communism and the public representation of Egyptian Jews, 1948-1954; 'Each of us is a story': Israelis of Egyptian Jewish origin and their memories; Conclusion; Final remarks; References; Index Summary "This book covers the period from the 1880s up to the early 1950s, offering a complete overview of the decades during which the Jewish community of Egypt consolidated, flourished and then rapidly declined"-- Provided by publisher "Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt - mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country. Histories of the Jews of Egypt argues that this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as "an imagined bourgeoisie". It demonstrates how, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1950s, a resilient imaginary bourgeois developed and influenced the lives of Egyptian Jews both in the public arena, in institutions such as the school, and in the home. From the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Cairo lycée français to Alexandrian marriage contracts and interwar Zionist newspapers - this book explains how this imaginary was characterised by a great capacity to adapt to the evolutions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt, but later deteriorated alongside increasingly strong Arab nationalism and the political upheavals that the country experienced from the 1940s onwards. Offering a novel perspective on the history of modern Egypt and its Jews, and unravelling too often forgotten episodes and personalities which contributed to the making of an incredibly diverse and lively Jewish diaspora at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East, this book is of interest to scholars of Modern Egypt, Jewish History and of Mediterranean History"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Jews -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century Jews -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century Judaism -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century Judaism -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century Judaism -- Egypt -- History -- Modern period, 1750- HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt. Ethnic relations Jews Judaism SUBJECT Egypt -- Ethnic relations Subject Egypt Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317624226 131762422X 9781315754475 1315754479 9781317624202 1317624203 9781317624219 1317624211 1138802050 9781138802056

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