Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries : history and culture in the modern era / edited by Harvey E. Goldberg.

"Published in association with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York."

Outgrowth of a conference "Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewry in Modern Times" which took place in Herzliya Pituah, Israel, 13-16 January 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Middle Eastern and North African Jewries confront modernity : orientation, disorientation, reorientation / Norman S. Stillman -- From Sabbateanism to modernization : Ottoman Jewry on the eve of the Ottoman reforms and the Haskala / Jacob Barnai -- Eastern Sephardi Jewry and new nation-states in the Balkans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Aron Rodrigue -- Process of modernization of Eastern Sephardi communities / Esther Benbassa -- Transformation of the Jewish community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Daniel J. Schroeter and Joseph Chetrit -- Traditional flexibility and modern strictness : two Halakhic positions on women's suffrage / Zvi Zohar -- Iraqi Jewry and cultural change in the educational activity of the Alliance Israélite Universelle / Zvi Yehuda -- Haskala in a sectional colonial society : Mahdia (Tunisia) / Yaron Tsur -- Maskil and the Mequbbal : Mordecai Ha-Cohen and the grave of Rabbi Shimʻon Lavi in Tripoli / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Foundation of Hispano-Jewish Associations in Morocco : contrasting portraits of Tangier and Tetuan / Isaac Guershon -- Kippur on the Amazon : Jewish emigration from Northern Morocco in the late nineteenth century / Susan Gilson Miller -- Flowering of Judeo-Arabic liteature in North Africa, 1850-1950 / Yosef Tobi -- Modernization and the language question among Judezmo-speaking Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire / David M. Bunis -- Persian Jewry and literature : a sociocultural view / Amnon Netzer -- Gender, marriage, and social conflict in Habban / Laurence D. Loeb -- "The peg of your tent" : narratives of North African Israeli women / Esther Schely-Newman -- Nostalgia and ambivalence : the reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim relations in Oulad Mansour / Yoram Bilu and André Levy -- Sephardi family and the challenge of assimilation : family ritual and ethnic reproduction / Joëlle Bahloul.