Between the Family and the Outside World: Jewish Girls in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Simon, Rachel

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“…Comme dans toute communauté traditionnelle, elles sont régies par un strict partage des rôles entre hommes et femmes 4 , réalité basée sur l'acquisition des dispositions de genres qui se construisent sur la division du travail 5 . Ces hommes-là sont dévolus aux affaires extérieures du domicile, les femmes ont pour tâches la nutrition de la famille, le ménage et la garde des enfants 6 . Elles sont soumises à la stricte observation des règles de la communauté déterminées par l'autorité masculine.…”

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Femmes juives du Maghreb

Tartakowsky¹

2012

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Femmes juives du Maghreb

Tartakowsky¹

2012

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“…Consequently, most Jewish men did not understand what they read and merely recited Hebrew and Aramaic phrases (including prayers) from written texts (Lehmann 2005, pp. 29-30, 34-37;Simon 2000). The majority of Jewish women were even less literate, because their education was experience-based, taught at home by older female relatives, and geared toward running a Jewish home by applying relevant Jewish laws to this end and to their personal life.…”

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The Contribution of Hebrew Printing Houses and Printers in Istanbul to Ladino Culture and Scholarship

Simon

2011

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Sephardi printers were pioneers of moveable type in the Islamic world, establishing a Hebrew printing house in Istanbul in 1493. Initially emphasizing classical religious works in Hebrew, since the eighteenth century printers have been instrumental in the development of scholarship, literature, and journalism in the vernacular of most Jews of the western Ottoman Empire: Ladino. Although most Jewish males knew the Hebrew alphabet, they did not understand Hebrew texts. Communal cultural leaders and printers collaborated in order to bring basic Jewish works to the masses in the only language they really knew. While some books in Ladino were printed as early as the sixteenth century, their percentage increased since the second quarter of the eighteenth century, following the printing of Me-’am lo’ez, by Jacob Culi (1730), and the Bible in Ladino translation by Abraham Assa (1739). In the nineteenth century the balance of Ladino printing shifted toward novels, poetry, history, and biography, sciences, and communal and state laws and regulations. Ladino periodicals, which aimed to modernize, educate, and entertain, were of special social and cultural importance, and their printing houses also served as publishers of Ladino books. Thus, from its beginnings as an agent that aimed to “Judaize” the Jews, Ladino publishing in the later period sought to modernize and entertain, while still trying to spread Judaic knowledge.

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Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries since 1492

Stein

2009

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

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Despite significant achievements, certain challenges still confront the student of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries. This article delineates four such challenges. First, the conceptual language and categories still need to be rethought: what is to be gained and lost by grouping Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries into one historical category? Second, while recent scholarship has challenged the ‘Sephardic Mystique’ and the ‘neo-lachrymose view of Jewish-Arab History’, there are other influential teleologies that warrant reconsideration, among them the teleologies of Westernization, modernization, and Zionism, all of which assume a Eurocentric perspective. Third, there remain numerous important gaps in the knowledge of Sephardi and Mizrahi culture and history, including social history, women's and gender history, comparative and inter-ethnic history. Fourth, there is still the task of using the scholarship on non-Ashkenazim to reconsider pre-existing assumptions about Jewish culture.

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Between the Family and the Outside World: Jewish Girls in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

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The Contribution of Hebrew Printing Houses and Printers in Istanbul to Ladino Culture and Scholarship

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