{"product_id":"longing-and-belonging-jews-in-the-modern-islamic-world-9781512827118","title":"Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis volume explores the history of Jewish life and experience in the modern Islamic world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLonging and Belonging \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the Ottoman Empire and after its demise. Here, modern Jewish protagonists are revealed as active participants in an expansive Islamic civilization, reflecting a mutuality and cross-fertilization in the region that raises new lines of inquiry and which offers enduring lessons for the world today. This collection both foregrounds the experiences of Jewish communities that have long been relegated to the margins of historical and literary studies and, critically, uses these experiences to complicate prevailing narratives from both Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies. By following communities from the coffeeshops of Cairo to the villages of Yemen, from the local marriage market in Izmir to the global commerce of the Sassoons, readers gain intimate insight into a world that resists a simple understanding of the modern Islamic world and of the place of Jews within it. Just as much as the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience complicates prevailing paradigms in the study of Jewish modernity, so too does it enrich understandings of modernity across Muslim societies. The volume tells a story of longing, belonging, and longing to belong, of multiple affinities in a world that no longer exists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e Esra Almas, Nancy E. Berg, Dina Danon, Keren Dotan, Annie Greene, Alma Rachel Heckman, Hadar Feldman Samet, Joseph Sassoon, Edwin Seroussi, Alon Tam, Alan Verskin, Mark Wagner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy E. Berg is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at the Washington University in St. Louis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDina Danon is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Binghamton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183383871762,"sku":"9781512827118","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d0ddba46-565e-4b93-89c4-5bfcf3210ad2.jpg?v=1744465295","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/longing-and-belonging-jews-in-the-modern-islamic-world-9781512827118","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}