Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardi world. Gabriel Arie's writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. His history is a fascinating memoir of the Sephardi and Levantine bourgeoisie of the time. For his entire life, Arie-teacher, historian, community leader, and businessman-was caught between East and West. Born in a small provincial town in Ottoman Bulgaria in 1863, he witnessed the disappearance of a social and political order that had lasted for centuries and its replacement by new ideas and new ways of life, which would irreversibly transform Jewish existence. A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe publishes in full the autobiography (covering the years 1863-1906) and journal (1906-39) of Gabriel Arie, along with selections from his letters to the Alliance Israelite Universelle. An introduction by Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue analyzes his life and examines the general and the Jewish contexts of the Levant at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-13
9780295976747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95432538
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Organisations
Author
Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigue
Publication Name
A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe: the Autobiography and Journals of Gabriel Arie, 1863-1939
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
333 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigue
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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