History -- The Jewish revolt against the Romans in Cyrenaica, 115-117 CE : archaeological evidence, causes, and course of the revolt / Shimon Applebaum -- Libyan Jews in the Islamic Arab and Ottoman periods / Maurice M. Roumani -- Folkways, language, habitat -- Mafrum, haraimi, tebiha, bsisa, and other culinary specialities : tastes, symbols, and meaning / Hamos Guetta -- Tradition with modernity : from Ottoman times (1835-1911) to Italian encounters (1900- ) / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Libyan Judeo-Arabic : the Arabic dialect and the Judeo-Arabic of the Jews of Tripoli / Sumikazu Yoda -- The vanishing landscape : a retrospective glance at the topos of Libyan Jews / Jack Arbib -- Women -- Libyan Jewish women as a marginalized vanguard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Rachel Simon -- Libyan Jewish women in Italy and Israel today / Gheula Canarutto Nemni and Judith Roumani -- Voices -- Life interrupted : interviews with Jews of Libyan origin / Vivienne Roumani-Denn -- Growing up Jewish in Benghazi : an interview with Samuele Zarrugh / Jacques Roumani -- Sufferings -- Violence and the liturgical/literary tradition : joining the chorus while retaining your voice / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Yossi Sucary's novel Benghazi : Bergen-Belsen in the context of North African Jewish literature of the Holocaust / Judith Roumani -- Libyan Jews between memory and history / David Meghnagi.
Summary:
This anthology brings together the work of a range of distinguished scholars to provide a contextual understanding of Jewish Libya. In highlighting important aspects of this now-fragmented culture and society, this collections seeks to commemorate, celebrate, and preserve vital elements of the Libyan Jewish heritage and evoke an inter-generational exchange among the 200,000 Jews of Libyan origin worldwide.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.