East and Maghreb I

Researches in the History of the Jews in the Orient and North Africa

Edited by: Haim Z. Hirschberg, Haim Z. Hirschberg, Shimon Schwarzfuchs

This series of essays and articles by experts in almost every field of Eastern Jewish life and thought - Sociology, History, Philosophy, Kabbalah, Responsa and Linguistics - does much to fill some of the lacunae in the anatomy of world Jewish culture.

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Danacode: 110-10088 Language: Hebrew Pages: 352 Weight: 500 gr Dimensions: 16X23 cm Publication Date: 01/1974 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

Preface

H.Z. (J.W.) Hirschberg East and Maghreb, Sephardim and Ashkenazim 9

M. Weinstein The Uninterrupted Existence of a Jewish Population in North Africa 37

S. Spitzer The Ashkenazim in the Ottoman Empire from the Middle of the 15th Century until the Middle of the 16th Century 59

L. Bornstein The Ashkenazim in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th Centuries 81

E. Bashan The Freedom of Trade and the Imposition of Taxes and Customs Duties on Foreign Jewish Traders in the Ottoman Empire 105

J. Geller The Economic Basis of the Yeshivot in the Ottoman Empire 167

L. Bornstein The Structure of the Rabbinate in the Ottoman Empire 223

Y. Abrahami A Chapter in the History of the Emancipation of Tunisian Jewry 259

A. Beeri Takkanoth and Quasi-Takkanoth in Gaonic Halacha 285

A. Namdar On the Interpretation of Community Ordinances by R. Samue de Medina 295

English Preface and Summaries VII

This book, the third in Dr. Nezrit's works on the communities of Tafilalet / Sijilmassa, covers all the customs of the area.

The Jews of Tunisia

Heritage; History; Literature

A collection of interdisciplinary studies on the Jews of Tunisia. The 22 articles by foremost scholars from Israel and from abroad encompass a wide variety of fields such as: rabbinic literature, history of Tunisian Jewry throughout the ages, community li

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Woman in the East; Woman from the East

The Story of the Oriental Jewish Woman

Did the Oriental Jewish woman have a history of her own? What was her image in male consciousness? What is known about her contemporary experiences? These are just a few of the questions addressed by the articles in this volume. Their authors have made us

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East and Maghreb II

Researches in the History of the Jews in the Orient and North Africa