{"id":3899,"date":"2015-07-15T15:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2015-07-15T15:26:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:26:47","slug":"histories-of-the-jews-of-egypt-an-imagined-bourgeoisie-1880s-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/histories-of-the-jews-of-egypt-an-imagined-bourgeoisie-1880s-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"Histories of the Jews of Egypt – An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vient de para\u00eetre,\u00a0Histories of the Jews of Egypt – An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s, By Dario Miccoli, ancien boursier CRFJ.\u00a0\u00a9<\/abbr>\u00a02015 \u2013 Routledge –\u00a0230 pages –<\/p>\n

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Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt \u2013 mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country.\u00a0Histories of the Jews of Egypt<\/i>\u00a0argues that this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as \u00ab\u00a0an imagined bourgeoisie\u00a0\u00bb. It demonstrates how, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1950s, a resilient bourgeois imaginary developed and influenced the lives of Egyptian Jews both in the public arena, in institutions such as the school, and in the home. From the schools of the\u00a0Alliance Isra\u00e9lite Universelle<\/i>\u00a0and the Cairo\u00a0lyc\u00e9e fran\u00e7ais<\/i>\u00a0to Alexandrian marriage contracts and interwar Zionist newspapers \u2013 this book explains how this imaginary was characterised by a great capacity to adapt to the evolutions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt, but later deteriorated alongside increasingly strong Arab nationalism and the political upheavals that the country experienced from the 1940s onwards. Offering a novel perspective on the history of modern Egypt and its Jews, and unravelling too often forgotten episodes and personalities which contributed to the making of an incredibly diverse and lively Jewish diaspora at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East, this book is of interest to scholars of Modern Egypt, Jewish History and of Mediterranean History.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Vient de para\u00eetre,\u00a0Histories of the Jews of Egypt – An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s, By Dario Miccoli, ancien boursier CRFJ.\u00a0\u00a9\u00a02015 \u2013 Routledge –\u00a0230 pages – Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt \u2013 mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crfj.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}