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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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- Description
- v, 321 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- 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.) :
- LCCN
- ^^^80006285^//r82
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library