A Sephardi Sea - Dario Miccoli

A Sephardi Sea

Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean

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Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06292-5 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
A Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and heritage-making has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today.
A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some of these Jewish migrants were already familiar with their new countries of residence because of colonial ties or of Zionism, and often spoke the language. Why, then, was the act of leaving so painful and why, more than fifty years afterward, is its memory still so tangible?

Dario Miccoli examines how the memories of a bygone Sephardi Mediterranean world became preserved in three national contexts—Israel, France, and Italy—where the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa and their descendants migrated and nowadays live.

A Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and heritage-making—from the writing of novels and memoirs to the opening of museums and memorials, the activities of heritage associations and state-led celebrations—has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today but also reinforce their connection to a vanished world now remembered with nostalgia, affection, and sadness.

Dario Miccoli is Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca' Foscari University, Venice. He is of author Histories of the Jews of Egypt: An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s–1950s.

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Being Jewish in the Mediterranean
1. Writing Exile
2. (In)tangible Heritages
3. An Unfinished Present
Conclusion: Afterlives of exile
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
Zusatzinfo 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Bloomington, IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 517 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-253-06292-6 / 0253062926
ISBN-13 978-0-253-06292-5 / 9780253062925
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