By Paul B. Fenton,David G. Littman

ISBN-10: 1611477875

ISBN-13: 9781611477870

The Exile within the Maghreb includes the 1st test at describing the old fact of the criminal and social of the Jews within the Muslim nations of North Africa (principally Algeria and Morocco) over one thousand yr interval from the center a long time (997 C.E.) to the French colonization (1830 Algeria/1912 Morocco.). The Exile isn't really a proper heritage yet a chronological anthology of files drawn from literary (section A) and archival resources (section B), lots of that are released for the 1st time.

In part A, Arabic and Hebrew chronicles, Muslim criminal, and theological texts are via the bills culled from ecu travelers—captives, diplomats, medical professionals, clerics, and adventurers. every one record is brought and annotated in any such method as to carry out its importance.

The moment part (B) displays the diplomatic job deployed through humanitarian firms in favour of North African Jewry. Spanning the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, those are normally drawn from the information of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (Paris) and the Anglo-Jewish organization (London). The records are richly elucidated with illustrations taken from the foreign press. The ebook provides a brand new and illuminating perception into the prestige of Jews lower than the Crescent. The Jews of North Africa have been the single minority lower than Islam, during this quarter and their historical past displays Judaism's particular stumble upon with Islam.

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