Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives

by Harvey E. Goldberg

Book Overview

In 1949 more than 35,000 Jews lived in Libya, but close to ninety percent had left before Libya attained its independence in 1952. Jewish Life in Muslim Libya combines historical and anthropological perspectives in depicting the changing relations between Muslims and Jews in Libya from the early nineteenth century up to the middle of the twentieth century.

Harvey E. Goldberg shows that the cultural and religious worlds of the Jewish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226300927
• ISBN13: 9780226300924
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"