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Sacred Places Tell Tales - (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Yoram Meital (Hardcover)

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  • Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews.
  • About the Author: Yoram Meital is Professor of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
  • 368 Pages
  • History, Jewish
  • Series Name: Jewish Culture and Contexts

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About the Book



"Cairo's synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and books are not relics of the past, but sites and materials that tell the story of modern Egyptian Jewish communities is told, both as sites that anchored Egyptian Jewish experiences in the twentieth century and as part of the lived environment of contemporary Cairo"--



Book Synopsis



Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews. Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo's synagogues as exquisite storytellers. The synagogues still stand in Cairo, and they shed new light on the social, cultural, and political processes that Egyptian society and the Jews underwent from 1875 to the present. Studying old and new synagogues in the Egyptian capital, their locations, the items they stored, and the range of religious and nonreligious activities they hosted reveals the social heterogeneity and the diverse ways in which modern Jewish sociocultural identity was constructed within Cairo's Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Karaite communities. Meital contends that studying the congregations and the social services provided in synagogues reveals the local Jewish community's customs, cultural preferences, socioeconomic gaps, and class divisions.

Sacred Places Tell Tales narrates not only the past but also the unprecedented transformations that have occurred in recent years in Egypt. While only a handful of Jews live in Egypt, the preservation of Jewish heritage, first and foremost synagogues and cemeteries, enjoy a growing interest in public discourse and popular culture. This new desire to preserve Jewish heritage is inseparable from the ongoing public debate about Egyptian society, its characteristics, and its identity, past and present. By contextualizing Jewish heritage preservation in a longer Egyptian and Jewish history, Meital opens a window into one of the most significant political discussions dividing Egyptian society today.



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"Meital's ground-break-ing study Sacred Places Tell Tales inves-ti-gates the changes in the Egypt-ian Jew-ish com-mu-ni-ty from 1875 to the present through an exam-i-na-tion of eleven syn-a-gogues still stand-ing in Cairo...The study of the eleven syn-a-gogues reveals the het-ero-ge-neous nature of the Jew-ish com-mu-ni-ty in Cairo dur-ing this peri-od. Meital's exam-i-na-tion of the syn-a-gogues' archi-tec-tur-al style, doc-u-ments, reli-gious texts, and the broad array of activ-i-ties and social ser-vices they offered allows him to recon-struct a com-plex pic-ture of Jew-ish life and iden-ti-ty."-- "Jewish Book Council"

"Expansive and inclusive in its perception of various Egyptian Jewish communities, Sacred Places Tell Tales offers a multifaceted exploration of Jewish cultural heritage sites in Egypt, away from the limiting analysis of national historiographies."-- "Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago"



About the Author



Yoram Meital is Professor of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .94 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.56 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 368
Series Title: Jewish Culture and Contexts
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Jewish
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Yoram Meital
Language: English
Street Date: July 9, 2024
TCIN: 91305936
UPC: 9781512825886
Item Number (DPCI): 247-29-6787
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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