Salameh Lebanon’s Jewish Community

Fragments of Lives Arrested
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-99667-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salameh, Franck

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Prolegomenon: When Lebanon Loved the Jews.- 2. Lebanon of the Jews: An Introduction.- 3. Lebanese Jewry: Memory Fragments.- 4. Rootedness and Exile: Holocaust and Aftermath.- 5. Lebanese Jewish Memory and Memorial: Personal Recollections.- 6. Through the Eyes of Others: History’s Reckoning.- 7. On Lebanese Jewish History and Memory: A Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Franck Salameh  is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College, USA.