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100 1 Miccoli, Dario,|eauthor.
245 10 Histories of the Jews of Egypt :|ban imagined bourgeoisie,
1880s-1950s /|cDario Miccoli.
264 1 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;|aNew York, NY :|bRoutledge,
|c[2015]
264 4 |c℗♭2015.
300 xii, 229 pages ;|c24 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent.
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia.
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier.
490 1 Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ;|v18.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 "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"--|cProvided by
publisher.
520 "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 Isra©♭lite
Universelle and the Cairo lyc©♭e fran©ʹais 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"--|cProvided by publisher.
650 0 Jews|zEgypt|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 Jews|zEgypt|xHistory|y20th century.
650 0 Judaism|zEgypt|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 Judaism|zEgypt|xHistory|y20th century.
651 0 Egypt|xEthnic relations.
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628.
830 0 Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ;|v18.
907 .b76521801|b04-12-16|c10-02-15
910 RDA ENRICHED
910 ybp
910 Backstage
910 TOC
910 Hathi Trust report SPM
910 BrownU
970 01 |tList of illustrations|pix
970 01 |tAcknowledgements|px
970 01 |tIntroduction: ©¡s we are dealing with the country called
Egypt'|p1
970 11 |tBourgeois modernities across the Mediterranean|p2
970 11 |tEducation, family and the power of the imagination|p8
970 11 |tHistories in the archive|p11
970 11 |l1.|tIn a bizarre country: the Jews of Egypt and the
Alliance Israelite Universelle|p20
970 11 |tNeither Eastern, nor Western: turn-of-the-century
Egyptian Jews and the teachers of the Alliance|p21
970 11 |tBetween millet and bourgeoisie: the Alliance and the
Jews of Cairo, 1890s--1920s|p27
970 11 |tWomen of valour? Class, gender and Jewishness in
Alexandria, 1900--1920|p32
970 11 |tProvincial modernities: the Jews of Tantah, 1905--1939
|p37
970 11 |tConclusion|p43
970 11 |l2.|tCosmopolitan imaginaries: urban life, schools and
feelings of belonging|p53
970 11 |tAnti-Semitism, cosmopolitanism and the making of an
Alexandrian Jewish elite, 1880s--1920s|p54
970 11 |t⁺ђBeing fused but not confused': the Mission Laique
Francaise in interwar Cairo|p61
970 11 |tFrom Cairo to Paris and beyond: Jewish students of the
Mission Laique Francaise in the early 1930s|p69
970 11 |t⁺ђTwo branches of a same tree': Maurice Fargeon and the
relations between Jews and Muslims, 1938--1943|p76
970 11 |tConclusion|p82
970 11 |l3.|tA moral laboratory: religion, family and social
respectability|p93
970 11 |tRabbi Eliyahu Hazan and the regulation of the Jewish
marriage in turn-of-the-century Alexandria|p93
970 11 |t⁺ђThe ambition to be an honest man': Jewish gentlemen in
Cairo, 1919--1927|p102
970 11 |tConversions, interclass marriages and the quest for a
noble past, 1920s--1940s|p110
970 11 |t©ђ community that goes to pot': Rabbi David Prato and
the Jews of Alexandria, 1927--1936|p120
970 11 |tConclusion|p127
970 11 |l4.|tExtremely close and incredibly far: Egypt, la
Palestine, Israel|p142
970 11 |tJews and other Jews: Zionist refugees in First World War
Alexandria|p143
970 11 |t©ђ bit of Palestine already coming towards us': women,
youth and Zionism in La Tribune Juive, 1936--1948|p149
970 11 |tS⁺ђtrangers in our own land'?: Zionism, Communism and
the public representation of Egyptian Jews, 1948--1954
|p157
970 11 |t©ach of us is a story': Israelis of Egyptian Jewish
origin and their memories|p167
970 11 |tConclusion|p176
970 01 |tFinal remarks|p189
970 01 |tReferences|p195
970 01 |tIndex|p222
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