Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World by Berg, Nancy
Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World by Berg, Nancy

Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World

This volume explores the history of Jewish life and experience in the modern Islamic world Longing and...
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Author: Nancy Berg
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Language: English
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Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World by Berg, Nancy

Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World

$238.17
Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World by Berg, Nancy

Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World

$238.17
Author: Nancy Berg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

This volume explores the history of Jewish life and experience in the modern Islamic world

Longing and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the Ottoman Empire and after its demise. Here, modern Jewish protagonists are revealed as active participants in an expansive Islamic civilization, reflecting a mutuality and cross-fertilization in the region that raises new lines of inquiry and which offers enduring lessons for the world today. This collection both foregrounds the experiences of Jewish communities that have long been relegated to the margins of historical and literary studies and, critically, uses these experiences to complicate prevailing narratives from both Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies. By following communities from the coffeeshops of Cairo to the villages of Yemen, from the local marriage market in Izmir to the global commerce of the Sassoons, readers gain intimate insight into a world that resists a simple understanding of the modern Islamic world and of the place of Jews within it. Just as much as the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience complicates prevailing paradigms in the study of Jewish modernity, so too does it enrich understandings of modernity across Muslim societies. The volume tells a story of longing, belonging, and longing to belong, of multiple affinities in a world that no longer exists.

Contributors: Esra Almas, Nancy E. Berg, Dina Danon, Keren Dotan, Annie Greene, Alma Rachel Heckman, Hadar Feldman Samet, Joseph Sassoon, Edwin Seroussi, Alon Tam, Alan Verskin, Mark Wagner.

Author: Nancy Berg
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 02/25/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781512827118

About the Author

Nancy E. Berg is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at the Washington University in St. Louis.

Dina Danon is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Binghamton University.
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