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The Jews in Modern Egypt 1914-1952.
[Buy it!] | Kramer, Gudrun: | USD 38.00
(Thu May 23 22:22:43 2024) | Choosebooks/ZVAB | Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß | ISBN10: 1850431000, ISBN13: 9781850431008, [publisher: London: I.B. Tauris.] Hardcover X, 319 Seiten / p. Buchrücken aufgeschlitzt, Aufkleberreste, innen gut und sauber / Spine slit, sticker remnants, inside good and clean - From the late 1800s until World War II, the Jewish communities of Cairo and Alexandria were vibrant, prosperous, and dynamic elements of Egyptian society. Suddenly in the late 1940s all of this changed, and by the 1980s only a few hundred Jews remained in the entire country. -- Gudrun Krämer explores the reasons for the swift rise and rapid decline of this minority community in a Muslim land. Beginning with an examination of the communal structure and composition of Egyptian Jewry, she illuminates its diversity in religious rite, ethnic origin, language, and nationality. In so doing, she paints a colorful picture of the communitys heyday in the 1920s and 1930s when Jewish merchant families such as the Mosseris, Rolos, Suareses, Cattaouis, and de Menasces controlled commercial empires linking Egypts economy to Europe. Although tolerated and even respected, the Jews were only marginally integrated into the dominant Muslim culture of Egypt. Thus, when in the 1940s the conflict over Palestine unleashed latent tensions and new political strife, their status was seriously challenged. -- Oral interviews and rich archival sources in Cairo, Jerusalem, Paris, London, and Bonn allow the author to describe in vivid detail the Jewish communitys struggle for survival during these turbulent years as anti-Zionism, Egyptianization, and Islamic resurgence gradually combined to erode the communitys fragile position in Egyptian society. ISBN 9781850431008 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 651 Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / Originalhardcover with dust jacket.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1989]
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