The Jews of Kurdistan

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814323922
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jews of Kurdistan by : Erich Brauer

Download or read book The Jews of Kurdistan written by Erich Brauer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now part of Iraq, left their homeland and resettled in Palestine where they were quickly assimilated with the dominant Israeli-Jewish culture. The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II. It is the only ethnological study of the Kurdish Jews ever written and provides a comprehensive look at their material culture, life cycles, religious practices, occupations, and relations with the Muslims. In his preface, Raphael Patai offers data he considers important for supplementing Brauer's book, and comments on the book's values and limitations fifty years after Brauer wrote it. Patai has included additional information elicited from Kurdish Jews in Jerusalem, verified quotations, and completed the bibliography.

The Jews of Kurdistan

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9789652782380
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jews of Kurdistan by : Ora Shwartz-Be'eri

Download or read book The Jews of Kurdistan written by Ora Shwartz-Be'eri and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurdish Jews, like so many Jewish populations, carried to Israel their unique, ancient culture and ways of life. Finding, collecting, identifying, and preserving Kurdish artifacts are the means of understanding this remarkable aspect of the Israeli cultural melange. The roots and traditions of Kurdish Jewry have special meaning for second- and third-generation members of the Israeli-born Kurdish community, and serve as a bridge between generations and among related communities abroad. The Jews of Kurdistan is profusely illustrated with wonderful color and black and white photographs of Kurdish Jews at home, work, and leisure. It presents a comprehensive visual and written portrait of this people's rich heritage, history, religious and spiritual life, daily life, clothing, needlework, metalwork and jewelry, illuminated manuscripts, synagogues, and ceremonial and ritual objects. It includes striking paintings of Kurdish Jewish women, a table of common weaving patterns, a glossary, and a selected bibliography. In the two decades since the publication of the Hebrew edition of this seminal work, the culture of the Jews of Kurdistan has largely been integrated into mainstream Israeli culture, allowing Shwartz-Be'eri's study to resonate as an ever more important ethnographic and historical document.

Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422120
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Book Synopsis Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan by : Mordechai Zaken

Download or read book Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan written by Mordechai Zaken and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the experience and the position of non-tribal Jewish subjects and their relationships with their tribal chieftains (aghas) in urban centers and villages in Kurdistan. It is based on new oral sources, diligently collected and carefully analyzed.

Unwitting Zionists

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814333662
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Unwitting Zionists by : Haya Gavish

Download or read book Unwitting Zionists written by Haya Gavish and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community's attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and Israel. Unwitting Zionists examines the Jewish community in the northern Kurdistan town of Zakho from the end of the Ottoman period until the disappearance of the community through aliyah by 1951. Because of its remote location, Zakho was far removed from the influence of the Jewish religious leadership in Iraq and preserved many of its religious traditions independently, becoming the most important Jewish community in the region and known as "Jerusalem of Kurdistan." Author Haya Gavish argues, therefore, that when the community was exposed to Zionism, it began to open up to external influences and activity. Originally published in Hebrew, Unwitting Zionists uses personal memoirs, historical records, and interviews to investigate the duality between Jewish tradition and Zionism among Zakho's Jews. Gavish consults a variety of sources to examine the changes undergone by the Jewish community as a result of its religious affiliation with Eretz-Israel, its exposure to Zionist efforts, and its eventual immigration to Israel. Because relatively little written documentation about Zakho exists, Gavish relies heavily on folkloristic sources like personal recollections and traditional stories, including extensive material from her own fieldwork with an economically and demographically diverse group of men and women from Zakho. She analyzes this firsthand information within a historical framework to reconstruct a communal reality and lifestyle that was virtually unknown to anyone outside of the community. Appendixes contain biographical details of the interviewees for additional background. Gavish also addresses the relative merits of personal memoirs, optimal interviewer-interviewee relationships, and the problem of relying on the interviewees' memories in her study. Folklore, oral history, anthropology, and Israeli studies scholars, as well as anyone wanting to learn more about religion, commuity, and nationality in the Middle East will appreciate Unwitting Zionists.

The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800643047
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Book Synopsis The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho by : Oz Aloni

Download or read book The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho written by Oz Aloni and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, the secluded Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho migrated collectively to Israel. It carried with it its unique language, culture and customs, many of which bore resemblance to those found in classical rabbinic literature. Like others in Kurdistan, for example, the Jews of Zakho retained a vibrant tradition of creating and performing songs based on embellishing biblical stories with Aggadic traditions. Despite the recent growth of scholarly interest into Neo-Aramaic communities, however, studies have to this point almost exclusively focused on the linguistic analysis of their critically endangered dialects and little attention has been paid to the sociological, historical and literary analysis of the cultural output of the diverse and isolated Neo-Aramaic communities of Kurdistan. In this innovative book, Oz Aloni seeks to redress this balance. Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech. The Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have kindly supported the publication of this volume

The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews

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ISBN 13 : 9780300026986
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews by : Yona Sabar

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My Father's Paradise

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565129962
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Book Synopsis My Father's Paradise by : Ariel Sabar

Download or read book My Father's Paradise written by Ariel Sabar and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people’s traditions. Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father’s strange immigrant heritage—until he had a son of his own. Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family’s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history. This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention.

The Jews of Kurdistan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jews of Kurdistan by : Ora Shwartz-Be'eri

Download or read book The Jews of Kurdistan written by Ora Shwartz-Be'eri and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Father's Paradise

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565124905
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (249 download)

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Book Synopsis My Father's Paradise by : Ariel Sabar

Download or read book My Father's Paradise written by Ariel Sabar and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist describes his father's birth into an isolated community of Kurdish Jews, their emigration to Israel in the 1950s, the disappearance of the ancient culture and language of the Kurdish Jews, and his and his father's journey to postwar Iraq to uncover the vanished history of a people and place.

A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004305041
Total Pages : 608 pages
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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic by : Geoffrey Khan

Download or read book A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic written by Geoffrey Khan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. This volume, the result of extensive fieldwork, contains a description of the dialect spoken by the Jews from the region of Arbel (Iraqi Kurdistan), together with a transcription of recorded texts and a glossary. The grammar consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax, preceded by an introductory chapter examining the position of this dialect in relation to the other known Neo-Aramaic dialects. The transcribed texts record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.

Turkey's Kurdish Question

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585177732
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Book Synopsis Turkey's Kurdish Question by : Henri J. Barkey

Download or read book Turkey's Kurdish Question written by Henri J. Barkey and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity—politically and through violence. Divided mainly among Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, the Kurds have posed increasingly sharp challenges to all of these states in their quest for greater autonomy if not outright independence. Turkey's essentially democratic structure and civil society_ideal tools for coping with and incorporating minority challenge_have so far been suspended on this issue, which the government is treating almost exclusively as a security problem to be dealt with by force. For the West the situation in Turkey is particularly significant because of the country's importance in the region and because of the economic, political, and diplomatic damage that the conflict has caused. If Turkey fails to find a peaceful solution within its current borders, then the outlook is grim for ethnic and separatist challenges elsewhere in the region. This study explores the roots, dimensions, character, and evolution of the problem, offers a range of approaches to a resolution of the conflict, and draws broader parallels between the Kurdish question and other separatist movements worldwide.

The Jews of Kurdistan, an ethnological study by Erich Brauer ..., completed, edited and translated by Raphael Patai ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
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Download or read book The Jews of Kurdistan, an ethnological study by Erich Brauer ..., completed, edited and translated by Raphael Patai ... written by Erich Brauer and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invention of the Jewish People

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788736613
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invention of the Jewish People by : Shlomo Sand

Download or read book The Invention of the Jewish People written by Shlomo Sand and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups could only take place under the sway of a new historiography, developing in response to the rise of nationalism throughout Europe. Beneath the biblical back fill of the nineteenth-century historians, and the twentieth-century intellectuals who replaced rabbis as the architects of Jewish identity, The Invention of the Jewish People uncovers a new narrative of Israel’s formation, and proposes a bold analysis of nationalism that accounts for the old myths. After a long stay on Israel’s bestseller list, and winning the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, The Invention of the Jewish People is finally available in English. The central importance of the conflict in the Middle East ensures that Sand’s arguments will reverberate well beyond the historians and politicians that he takes to task. Without an adequate understanding of Israel’s past, capable of superseding today’s opposing views, diplomatic solutions are likely to remain elusive. In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.

Osnat and Her Dove

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1646140516
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Osnat and Her Dove written by Sigal Samuel and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osnat was born five hundred years ago – at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read. Yet Osnat's father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books. And she convinced him to teach her. Then she in turn grew up to teach others, becoming a wise scholar in her own right, the world's first female rabbi! Some say Osnat performed miracles – like healing a dove who had been shot by a hunter! Or saving a congregation from fire! But perhaps her greatest feat was to be a light of inspiration for other girls and boys; to show that any person who can learn might find a path that none have walked before.

Jewish Communities in Exotic Places

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0765761122
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Book Synopsis Jewish Communities in Exotic Places by : Ken Blady

Download or read book Jewish Communities in Exotic Places written by Ken Blady and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and aspects of the dominant cultures in which they were situated.

Routledge Handbook on the Kurds

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317237986
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook on the Kurds by : Michael M. Gunter

Download or read book Routledge Handbook on the Kurds written by Michael M. Gunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an estimated population of over 30 million, the Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world. They are becoming increasingly important within regional and international geopolitics, particularly since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring and the war in Syria. This multidisciplinary Handbook provides a definitive overview of a range of themes within Kurdish studies. Topics covered include: Kurdish studies in the United States and Europe Early Kurdish history Kurdish culture, literature and cinema Economic dimensions Religion Geography and travel Kurdish women The Kurdish situation in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran The Kurdish diaspora. With a wide range of contributions from many leading academic experts, this Handbook will be a vital resource for students and scholars of Kurdish studies and Middle Eastern studies.

Jews Among Muslims

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814796761
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Book Synopsis Jews Among Muslims by : Shlomo Deshen

Download or read book Jews Among Muslims written by Shlomo Deshen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on the history of Jews in Morocco, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran.