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"Jews and Muslims throws light on the history of these communities, focusing on the century before the end of Jewish life in Muslim areas. It interweaves analysis with translations of primary documents drawn from the archives of a French-Jewish organization, the Alliance Israelite Universelle, that had an extensive Jewish school network around the Mediterranean basin. It illuminates the political, socio-economic, and cultural changes that eroded the place of Jews in Middle Eastern societies and offers a unique perspective, from within, on the historical background of some of the most vexing problems of the modern Middle East."--Jacket

This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role that colonialism in the Aegean Region played in Mussolini's imperial ambitions, bringing to light a history rarely scrutinized until recently.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures -- Note on Sigla Used in the Ladino Romanized Text and English Translation -- Editors' Introduction -- English Translation -- Romanized Transliteration -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Consulted -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- A Law of Difference in the History of Difference. THE FIRST EDICT OF "TOLERANCE" -- Waging Peace. MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND THE EDICT OF NANTES -- Sharing Sacred Space. PROTESTANT TEMPLES AND RELIGIOUS COEXISTENCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- Religion and Politics in France during the Period of the Edict of Nantes (1598–1685) -- Catholic Conciliar Reform in an Age of Anti-Catholic Revolution -- French Protestants, Laicization, and the Separation of the Churches and the State, 1802–1905 -- Totems, Taboos, and Jews. SALOMON REINACH AND THE POLITICS OF SCHOLARSHIP IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE FRANCE -- Catholic Culture in Interwar France -- The Right to Be Different. SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE "FRENCH EXCEPTION" -- Islam in a Secular Context. CATALYST OF THE "FRENCH EXCEPTION " -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors