目录 |
| List of illustrations | ix |
| Acknowledgements | x |
| Introduction: ©¡s we are dealing with the country called Egypt' | 1 |
| Bourgeois modernities across the Mediterranean | 2 |
| Education, family and the power of the imagination | 8 |
| Histories in the archive | 11 |
1. | In a bizarre country: the Jews of Egypt and the Alliance Israelite Universelle | 20 |
| Neither Eastern, nor Western: turn-of-the-century Egyptian Jews and the teachers of the Alliance | 21 |
| Between millet and bourgeoisie: the Alliance and the Jews of Cairo, 1890s--1920s | 27 |
| Women of valour? Class, gender and Jewishness in Alexandria, 1900--1920 | 32 |
| Provincial modernities: the Jews of Tantah, 1905--1939 | 37 |
| Conclusion | 43 |
2. | Cosmopolitan imaginaries: urban life, schools and feelings of belonging | 53 |
| Anti-Semitism, cosmopolitanism and the making of an Alexandrian Jewish elite, 1880s--1920s | 54 |
| ⁺ђBeing fused but not confused': the Mission Laique Francaise in interwar Cairo | 61 |
| From Cairo to Paris and beyond: Jewish students of the Mission Laique Francaise in the early 1930s | 69 |
| ⁺ђTwo branches of a same tree': Maurice Fargeon and the relations between Jews and Muslims, 1938--1943 | 76 |
| Conclusion | 82 |
3. | A moral laboratory: religion, family and social respectability | 93 |
| Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan and the regulation of the Jewish marriage in turn-of-the-century Alexandria | 93 |
| ⁺ђThe ambition to be an honest man': Jewish gentlemen in Cairo, 1919--1927 | 102 |
| Conversions, interclass marriages and the quest for a noble past, 1920s--1940s | 110 |
| ©ђ community that goes to pot': Rabbi David Prato and the Jews of Alexandria, 1927--1936 | 120 |
| Conclusion | 127 |
4. | Extremely close and incredibly far: Egypt, la Palestine, Israel | 142 |
| Jews and other Jews: Zionist refugees in First World War Alexandria | 143 |
| ©ђ bit of Palestine already coming towards us': women, youth and Zionism in La Tribune Juive, 1936--1948 | 149 |
| S⁺ђtrangers in our own land'?: Zionism, Communism and the public representation of Egyptian Jews, 1948--1954 | 157 |
| ©ach of us is a story': Israelis of Egyptian Jewish origin and their memories | 167 |
| Conclusion | 176 |
| Final remarks | 189 |
| References | 195 |
| Index | 222 |