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Jewish societies in the Middle East : community, culture, and authority / edited by Shlomo Deshen, Walter P. Zenner.

Title
Jewish societies in the Middle East : community, culture, and authority / edited by Shlomo Deshen, Walter P. Zenner.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Deshen, Shlomo A.
  • Zenner, Walter P.
Description
v, 321 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Arab countries > Ethnic relations
  • Jews > Arab countries
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 311-320.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : the historical ethnology of Middle Eastern Jews / Walter P. Zenner and Shlomo Deshen -- Traditional society and modern society / Jacob Katz -- Judaism in "pre-modern" societies / Stephen Sharot -- Patronage and protection : the status of Jews in precolonial Morocco / Allan R. Meyers -- Jewish existence in a Berber environment / Moshe Shokeid -- The social structure of southern Tunisian Jewry in the early 20th century / Shlomo Deshen -- From shaikh to mazkir : structural continuity and organizational change in a tripolitanian Jewish community / Harvey Goldberg -- Jews in late Ottoman Syria : external relations / Walter P. Zenner -- Jews in late Ottoman Syria : community, family and religion / Walter P. Zenner -- The social structure of Jewish education in Yemen / Shlomo Dov Goitein -- The authority of the community of San'aa in Yemenite Jewry / Yosef Tobi -- Aspects of the social life of Kurdish Jews / Dina Feitelson -- Family conflict and cooperation in folksongs of Kurdish Jews / Donna Shai -- Prestige and piety in the Iranian synagogue / Laurence D. Loeb -- The dowry as capital accumulation among the Sephardic Jews of Istanbul, Turkey / Mark Glazer.
ISBN
  • 0819125784 :
  • 0819125792 (pbk.) :
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^^^80006285^//r82
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Harvard Library