Description: Further DetailsTitle: Sacred Places Tell TalesCondition: NewFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 1512825883EAN: 9781512825886ISBN: 9781512825886Author: Yoram MeitalType: Communication StudiesSubtitle: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern CairoPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressRelease Date: 09/07/2024Description: Cairo’s synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryBook Series: Jewish Culture and ContextsRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Sacred Places Tell Tales
Publication Name: Sacred Places Tell Tales
Title: Sacred Places Tell Tales
ISBN-10: 1512825883
EAN: 9781512825886
ISBN: 9781512825886
Author: Yoram Meital
Type: Communication Studies
Subtitle: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Year: 2024
Release Date: 09/07/2024
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
