This volume offers twelve studies based on lectures delivered by participants of the workshop. These studies deal with culture and history, customs and traditions from all North African Jewish communities. The studies are to a large extent based on documents housed in the Yale University Library. This volume is a continuation of volume 1 that appeared in 2011.
The articles in this volume:
Moshe Bar-Asher – Moroccan Traditions on Worshippers of the Golden Calf and Profaned Priests
Nathalie Akun – Vestiges of Eretz Israel in the Hebrew of Morocco
Avishai Bar-Asher – Tablets and Fragments of Tablets: Some Notes on R. Yehuda b. Yoseph Al-
Yaakov Bentolila – The Nineteenth-Century Book of Records from the Jewish Community of Tangier and Its Contribution to a Dictionary of Hebrew Elements in Haketia
Ephraim Hazan and Rachel Hitin-Mashiah – Mi Khamokha, Local
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Nahem Ilan – A Letter of Intervention on Behalf of the Greek Patriarch Egypt
Aharon Maman – Textual Metonymy in Jewish Languages
Jessica M. Marglin – Cooperation and Competition among Jewish and Islamic Courts: Double Notarization in Nineteenth-Century Morroco
Ariel Shaveh – Trends in Contemporary North African Prayer Books
Joseph Tedghi – An Unpublished Responsum by Rabbi Yoseph Messas about Jewish Marriage Contracts
Ofra Tirosh-Bedker – A Reflection of a Linguistic Reality: An Algerian Judeo-Arabic Book for the New Year
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"The study of Jewish culture in the Maghreb has taken major strides since the 1970s, when the first concerted effort to give it prominence took place in the Israeli context. At the same time, the number of researchers (in Israel and elsewhere) who mastered the linguistic skills required to achieve the analytic refinement reflected in the present volume has remained limited. It is worth reviewing the elements of the challenge entailed in such an enterprise, particularly with regard to Judaeo-Arabic: learning Arabic, being able to read it in Hebrew characters and grasping the Hebrew-Aramaic influence upon the language, and confronting a variety of local scripts along with sensitivity to variation in spoken dialects that are expressed in the texts available. Some of the papers in the present collection are also based upon fieldwork carried out among speakers of the Jewish dialects, whose numbers continue to dwindle. A major general contribution of this volume is to make this overall research orientation accessible, in both format and style, without compromising the intricacies and depth of the scholarly effort." - Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Vol XXIX, by Harvey E. Goldberg, 2016