A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria

Передня обкладинка
Wayne State University Press, 2000 - 233 стор.

An interpretation of the historical experience of the Jewish community in Syria and in the other places to which Aleppan Jewry have immigrated.

The Jews from Aleppo, Syria, and their descendants compose a remarkable but little-known community that has spread throughout the world during the past two centuries, adapting to myriad social settings from Kobe to Buenos Aires. A Global Community is the first comprehensive scholarly interpretation of the historical experience of this unusual community in Syria and in the other places to which Aleppan Jewry have immigrated. Walter P. Zenner points to the social, economic, and cultural links that the various Syrian Jewish communities have made for the unique persistence of community throughout the diaspora. He places special emphasis in the communities in Israel and the United States but also studies the communities in England and Latin America. He utilizes rabbinical responsas, travelers' writings, secondary sources, interviews, and oral histories to provide a unique look into this Middle Eastern Jewish community for those interested in Ashkenazic as well as Sephardic Judaism.

 

Вибрані сторінки

Зміст

PREFACE
9
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
19
NOTES
191
REFERENCES
215
Авторські права

Загальні терміни та фрази

active Albany Aleppan Jews Aleppan rabbis Aleppo Chronicles Amnon Shamosh Arab Arabic-speaking Argentina Armenian Ashkenazim assimilation Aviv baqashot became Bensonhurst Bradley Beach Brooklyn Buenos Aires chapter Chicago Christians congregation culture Damascus David Deal Diaspora Edmond Safra Egypt emigration Eretz Yisrael especially Ezra father fieldwork Flatbush gogue Guatemala Halebi haredi Hebrew identity instance interviews Israel Jerusalem Jewry Jews in Brooklyn Judaism Laniado Latin America Lebanese Levy lived maintained Manchester marriage married merchants Mexico City Middle East Middle Eastern Jews minority moved Muslims neighborhood neighbors nineteenth century number of Syrian Ocean Parkway origin Orthodox Ottoman Empire out-of-towners Palestine Panama peddlers period Picciotto political rabbis religious Sabbath Safra secular Sephardic Jews Sephardim social syna synagogue Syrian community Syrian Jewish Syrian Jewish community Syrian Jews Syrian Sephardim tion Torah trade traditional United University Press W. P. Zenner women World yeshiva York City York Press Zionist

Про автора (2000)

Walter Zenner is a professor of anthropology and Judaic studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Jewish Societies in the Middle East: Community, Culture, and Authority (University Press of America, 1982), Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology (Waveland Press, 1996), Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience (SUNY, 1988), and Minorities in the Middle: A Cross Cultural Analysis (SUNY, 1991)

Бібліографічна інформація

НазваA Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria
Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
АвторWalter P. Zenner
Виданняілюстроване
ВидавецьWayne State University Press, 2000
ISBN0814327915, 9780814327913
Обсяг233 стор.
  
Експортувати бібліографічний описBiBTeX EndNote RefMan