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Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria
A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman to French-liberal-colonial politics.
The End of Empires and a World Remade
A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalization Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became internationalized and transnational, as much global campaigns of moral disarmament against colonial injustice as local contests of arms. In this expansive history, Martin Thomas tells the story of decolonization and its intrinsic link to globalization. He traces the connections between these two transformative pr...
Jewish Books in North Africa
Jewish Books in North Africa delves into the multifaceted significance of books among North African Jews. From the late Middle Ages to the 19th century, this exploration encompasses the history, manufacture, distribution, and readership of Jewish books. These texts were not mere vessels of knowledge; they were integral to a vibrant cultural tapestry that stretched across North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Author Noam Sienna unveils a vast Sephardic world created by these books. This literary network transcended geographical boundaries, connecting Jewish communities from Fez and Tunis to Salonica, Jerusalem, and Livorno.By examining cultural centers and tracing the journey of these te...
Making an African City
In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable" city looked like. Unlike cities elsewhere on the continent, Accra had a long history of urbanism that predated British colonial presence. By criminalizing some activities and privileging others, colonial officials sought to marginalize indigenous practices of Accra residents and shape the development of a new, "modern" city. Hart argues, however, that residents regularly pushed back, protesting regulations, refusing to participate in newly developed systems, reappropriating infrastructure, demand...
Sovereignty and Religious Freedom
A comparative legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom, illuminating the surprising ways that collective and individual rights have evolved over the past two centuries It is a common assumption that in Israel, Jews have sovereignty, and in most other places where Jews live today, they have religious freedom instead. As Simon Rabinovitch shows in this original work, the situation is much more complicated. Jews today possess different kinds of legal rights in states around the world; some stem from religious freedom protections, and others evolved from a longer history of Jewish autonomy. By comparing conflicts between Jewish collective and individual rights in courts and laws...
Colonial Algeria and the Politics of Citizenship
This book explores citizenship politics in colonial Algeria, which became a key battlefield for struggles over participation of the body politic and the reach of universal promise in 1789. In examining these struggles, Avner Ofrath shows how colonialism dissolved the political community as a frame of participation and negotiation, first in the colonies and ultimately in the metropole. Revealing the racialization of citizenship from the late 19th century onwards, this book shows how lawmakers under the Third French Republic construed colonial subjugation around rigid ethnic-religious criteria in order to protect settler privileges and exclude Algerian Muslims. Portraying Islam as oppressive a...
Coming Home
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“Through Their Eyes…” – Biographical Research in the Digital Age
[PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany ; 30] Biographical studies have always been central to the field of history, but the relevance of biographical research seems to have increased in recent years, calling for a deeper analytical study and a critical re-evaluation of the newly developing “biographical turn.” Especially in an increasingly digitized world, including in academia, life stories seem to offer new perspectives through which personal narratives, cultural phenomena, or literary works can be examined, understood, and presented. Furthermore, these sources raise new questions about the interests and perspectives of the author(s), the reliability and sub...
Israel, Palästina, Deutschland
Der »Nahost«-Konflikt ist längst kein regionaler Konflikt mehr. An US-Colleges wird über ihn genauso erbittert gestritten wie in deutschen Museen. Wie in einem Palimpsest überlagern sich in ihm Bedeutungsschichten aus früheren Zeiten: erlittene Ungerechtigkeiten, nationale Identitäten, koloniales Erbe. Hierzulande dient er oft als Projektionsfläche für Auseinandersetzungen um Zuwanderung und Staatsbürgerschaft. Vor dem Hintergrund der extremen Gewalt betrachtet Avner Ofrath die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern in ihrer Verwobenheit mit Europa. Er zeichnet die komplexen historischen Kontexte nach, in denen Juden und Muslime aufeinandertrafen, und wie diese Erfahrungen ihre jeweiligen Vorstellungen des Selbst und des Anderen prägten.
