JEWISH LIBYA: MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN TEXT AND IMAGE
Editors : Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, Judith Roumani
Expanded Table of Contents
IN MEMORIAM: JACQUES ROUMANI (Maurice M. Roumani)
PREFACE (David Meghnagi)
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW (Jacques Roumani)
I. THE JEWISH REVOLT AGAINST THE ROMANS IN CYFRENAICA, 115-117 CE: ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE, by Shimon Applebaum. Causes and course of the Revolt. Extracted from Shimon Applebaum, Jews and Greeks in Ancient Cyrene Leiden: Brill, 1979. (With permission from Brill).
II. LIFE INTERRUPTED: INTERVIEWS WITH JEW OF LIBYAN ORIGIN. Libyan Jews fill a wide and diverse spectrum of careers and activities along traditional and modern lines. Whether successful entrepreneurs, professionals, leading national and international figures, academics and artists, or rabbis, they are linked by a common Libyan Jewish heritage. This chapter includes excerpts of stories and of oral history drawn from the collection of Vivienne Roumani-Denn, who is the author of the chapter.
III. THE VANISHING LANDSCAPE: A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT THE TOPOS OF LIBYAN JEWS: HABITAT AND PLACES OF SOCIAL AGGREGATION, Jack Arbib (includes pictures from the archives of Hamos Guetta (Rome) the Libyan Jewish Heritage Museum and the Or-Shalom Museum (in Israel).
IV.
MAFRUM, AHRAYMI, TEBICHA,
METOUMA, AND OTHER CULINARY SPECIALITIES : Tastes, Symbols and Meaning
(Hamos Guetta).
V. LIBYAN JEWISH WOMEN AS MARGINALIZED VANGUARD IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES: Family Life, Work, Education, Participation in Public Life (Rachel Simon).
VI. TRADITION WITH MODERNITY. From Ottoman times (1835-1911) to Italian encounters (1900--). Against the background of Jewish-Muslim relations in Libya, this chapter focuses on Jewish Libyan traditions and their evolution, beginning in the 19th century, with particular emphasis on the effects of Italian influences on the ‘emancipation’ of Libyan Jewry and on the defenders of tradition, up to the integration of Libyan Jews today in Italy and Israel. (Harvey Goldberg).
VII. VIOLENCE AND THE LITURGICAL TRADITION (Joining the Chorus while Retaining your Voice: Jews from Libya within Israeli Narratives) by Harvey Goldberg.
VIII. YOSSI SUCARY’S NOVEL BENGHAZI-BERGEN-BELSEN IN THE CONTEXT OF NORTH AFRICAN JEWISH LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST By Judith Roumani.
IX. LIBYAN JUDEO-ARABIC. The Arabic Dialect and the Judeo-Arabic of the Jews of Tripoli By Sumikazu Yoda.
X. LIBYAN JEWISH WOMEN IN ITALY TODAY. By Gheula Canarutto Nemni. Based on interviews with three groups of women: conservative/traditional, middle of the road, and modernizing.
XI. LIBYAN JEWS BETWEEN MEMORY AND HISTORY. Traces, Napoleon the Jew, Between Colonialism, Fascism, and Arab Nationalism, Liberation, The 1945 and 1948 Pogroms, Post-War Period, An Internal Migration, Linguistic Games, The Nineteen-Sixties, The 1967 Pogrom, Departure, Epilogue. Toward preservation of memory and continuity of identity? (David Meghnagi).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ENDNOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
275 pp.
75,500 words
115 illustrations
10 tables