Author: Yūsuf Rizq Allāh Ghanīmah
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761812258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Placing the Garden of Eden in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, the author (a Christian Assyrian educated in Jewish schools) presents a brief history of Iraqi Jews from Adam and Eve to 1924, summarizing the works of scholars and archaeological findings. The book was translated from the original Arabic work, Also included is an essay updating the history to 1997. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Nostalgic Trip Into the History of the Jews of Iraq
Author: Yūsuf Rizq Allāh Ghanīmah
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761812258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Placing the Garden of Eden in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, the author (a Christian Assyrian educated in Jewish schools) presents a brief history of Iraqi Jews from Adam and Eve to 1924, summarizing the works of scholars and archaeological findings. The book was translated from the original Arabic work, Also included is an essay updating the history to 1997. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761812258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Placing the Garden of Eden in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, the author (a Christian Assyrian educated in Jewish schools) presents a brief history of Iraqi Jews from Adam and Eve to 1924, summarizing the works of scholars and archaeological findings. The book was translated from the original Arabic work, Also included is an essay updating the history to 1997. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
Author: Moshe Behar
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584658851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584658851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought
On the Margins of Nations: Endangered Languages and Linguistic Rights
Author: Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference
Publisher: Institut d'Estudis Catalans
ISBN: 9780953824861
Category : Endangered languages
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Institut d'Estudis Catalans
ISBN: 9780953824861
Category : Endangered languages
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Farhud
Author: Edwin Black
Publisher: Dialog Press
ISBN: 091415365X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust.
Publisher: Dialog Press
ISBN: 091415365X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust.
Baghdad
Author: Justin Marozzi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141948043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters 'Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians' - Sunday Telegraph Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors. Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth. Justin Marozzi is a Councillor of the Royal Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University. He has broadcast for BBC Radio Four, and regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times, for which he has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. His previous books include the bestselling Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year (2004), and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141948043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters 'Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians' - Sunday Telegraph Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors. Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth. Justin Marozzi is a Councillor of the Royal Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University. He has broadcast for BBC Radio Four, and regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times, for which he has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. His previous books include the bestselling Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year (2004), and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus.
Synagogues in the Islamic World
Author: Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474468438
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the architecture of synagogues responded to contextual issues and traditions, and how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues. As well as revealing how synagogues reflect the culture of the Jewish minority at macro and micro scales, from the city to the interior, the book also considers patterns of the development of synagogues in urban contexts and in connection with urban elements and monuments.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474468438
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the architecture of synagogues responded to contextual issues and traditions, and how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues. As well as revealing how synagogues reflect the culture of the Jewish minority at macro and micro scales, from the city to the interior, the book also considers patterns of the development of synagogues in urban contexts and in connection with urban elements and monuments.
Poetry's Voice - Society's Norms
Author: Angelika Neuwirth
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of Literary Studies as well as specialists in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish Studies explore the dimensions and ways of how writers, from the classical period to modernity, tackled the values of their societies. From the contents: Religious Norms Advocating / Domesticating Literary Freedom - Literary Norms and the Travelling of Genres - Linguistic Norms: Writing in the 'Stepmother Tongue' - Gender Norms, Inverted and Subverted - Societal Norms I: The Poet Involved - Societal Norms II: Imagining Communities, Debating the Collective.
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of Literary Studies as well as specialists in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish Studies explore the dimensions and ways of how writers, from the classical period to modernity, tackled the values of their societies. From the contents: Religious Norms Advocating / Domesticating Literary Freedom - Literary Norms and the Travelling of Genres - Linguistic Norms: Writing in the 'Stepmother Tongue' - Gender Norms, Inverted and Subverted - Societal Norms I: The Poet Involved - Societal Norms II: Imagining Communities, Debating the Collective.
Arab-Jewish Literature
Author: Reuven Snir
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390685
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story, Reuven Snir offers an account of the emergence of the art of the Arabic short story among the Arabized Jews during the 1920s, especially in Iraq and Egypt, its development in the next two decades, until the emigration to Israel after 1948, and the efforts to continue the literary writing in Israeli society, the shift to Hebrew, and its current demise. The stories discussed in the book reflect the various stages of the development of Arab-Jewish identity during the twentieth century and are studied in the relevant updated theoretical and literary contexts. An anthology of sixteen translated stories is also included as an appendix to the book. "Highly recommended for academic libraries collecting in the areas of Arab-Jewish cultural history, diaspora and exile studies, and literary identity formations." - Dr. Yaffa Weisman, Los Angeles, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390685
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story, Reuven Snir offers an account of the emergence of the art of the Arabic short story among the Arabized Jews during the 1920s, especially in Iraq and Egypt, its development in the next two decades, until the emigration to Israel after 1948, and the efforts to continue the literary writing in Israeli society, the shift to Hebrew, and its current demise. The stories discussed in the book reflect the various stages of the development of Arab-Jewish identity during the twentieth century and are studied in the relevant updated theoretical and literary contexts. An anthology of sixteen translated stories is also included as an appendix to the book. "Highly recommended for academic libraries collecting in the areas of Arab-Jewish cultural history, diaspora and exile studies, and literary identity formations." - Dr. Yaffa Weisman, Los Angeles, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)
Acta Orientalia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?
Author: Reuven Snir
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004289100
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?: Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities, Professor Reuven Snir, Dean of Humanities at Haifa University, presents a new approach to the study of Arab-Jewish identity and the subjectivities of Arabized Jews. Against the historical background of Arab-Jewish culture and in light of identity theory, Snir shows how the exclusion that the Arabized Jews had experienced, both in their mother countries and then in Israel, led to the fragmentation of their original identities and encouraged them to find refuge in inessential solidarities. Following double exclusion, intense globalization, and contemporary fluidity of identities, singularity, not identity, has become the major war cry among Arabized Jews during the last decade in our present liquid society. "In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Reuven Snir brings out an important contribution to studies of the history, literature and identity of Arabized Jews, showing the significant shifts these communities have undergone in the ways their identities have been defined and constructed in the modern period." - Lisa Bernasek, University of Southampton, in: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 18.2 (2019)
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004289100
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?: Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities, Professor Reuven Snir, Dean of Humanities at Haifa University, presents a new approach to the study of Arab-Jewish identity and the subjectivities of Arabized Jews. Against the historical background of Arab-Jewish culture and in light of identity theory, Snir shows how the exclusion that the Arabized Jews had experienced, both in their mother countries and then in Israel, led to the fragmentation of their original identities and encouraged them to find refuge in inessential solidarities. Following double exclusion, intense globalization, and contemporary fluidity of identities, singularity, not identity, has become the major war cry among Arabized Jews during the last decade in our present liquid society. "In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Reuven Snir brings out an important contribution to studies of the history, literature and identity of Arabized Jews, showing the significant shifts these communities have undergone in the ways their identities have been defined and constructed in the modern period." - Lisa Bernasek, University of Southampton, in: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 18.2 (2019)