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Research interests
Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in modern times, with special
reference to Libya, gender issues, education, Zionism, folk literature

Network Editor, Religious Studies Review  (Judaism in the Modern Middle East and North Africa)
 
 

 Books

1.   The Jewish Community of Libya at the Late Ottoman Period (Tel-Aviv: Open University, 1987)  [in Hebrew]
2.   Change within Tradition Among Jewish  Women  in  Libya (Seattle: University  of  Washington  Press, 1992)
 

 Articles

1.   "The  Jews  of  Libya  and  their  Gentile  Environment  in  the Late  Ottoman Period",  [in Hebrew]
           Peamim,  3  (1979):  5-36
                I. Bezalel (ed.), Paamei Maarav  (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1983): 108-140
2.   "The  Socio-economic  Role  of  the  Tripolitanian  Jews  in  the Late  Ottoman Period"  in M.  Abitbol  (ed.),
               Communautes  juives des  marges  sahariennes  du  Maghreb (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi  Institute,  1982):  321-328
3.   "The  Relations  of  the  Jewish  Community  of Libya with Europe in the  Late Ottoman  Period",   in J. -L. Miege (ed.),
               Les  relations  intercommunautaires juives en Mediterranee occidentale XIIIe-XXe  siecles  (Paris:  CNRS,
               1984): 70-78
4.    "Jews and the Modernization of Ottoman Libya", Alliance Review, 24 (1984): 33-40
5.  "The Jews of Libya on the Verge of Holocaust", Peamim,  28  (1986): 44-77 [Hebrew]
           - English: "It Could have Happened There: The Jews of Libya during the Second World War" Africana  Journal  16    (1994): 391-422
6.  "The Trans-Saharan Trade and Its Impact on the Jewish Community of Libya in the Late Ottoman Period", Proceedings  of  the American  Historical  Association [AHA],  1987, Ann Arbor: University   Microfilm  International
7.  "The  Revival  of  the  Hebrew  Language  in  Libya",  Shorashim ba-Mizrah,  2 (1989): 173-209  [in  Hebrew]
8.  "Jewish-Muslim  Inter-relations  in  Ottoman  Libya",  Society and Community (Jerusalem:  Misgav Yerushalayim, 1991):
211-223 [in Hebrew]
9.   "Jewish-Muslim  Relations  in  Libya  in the 19th-20th Centuries", in H. Lazarus-Yafeh (ed.),  Muslim Authors on Jews and Judaism (Jerusalem:  Shazar  Center, 1996)
10.    "Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry during the Ottoman Period", in Y.K. Stillman & G.K. Zucker (eds.), New Horizons in Sephardic Studies  (Albany :SUNY Press, 1993): 83-91
11.    "Jewish Participation in the Reforms in Libya during the Second Ottoman Period, 1835-1911", in A. Levy (ed.), The Jews of the Ottoman Empire  (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1993): 485-506
12.    "Jewish Emigration from Libya during the Twentieth Century", Shorashim ba-Mizrah,  3 (1991): 295-351 [in Hebrew]
13.    "Jewish Itinerant Peddlers in Ottoman Libya: Economocs, Social and Cultural Aspects", in C.E. Farah (ed.), Decision Making and Change in the Ottoman Empire  (Kirksville: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1993): 293-304
14.    "Language Change and Political-Social Transformation: The Case of the Libyan Jews (19th-20th Centuries)", Jewish History,  4 (1989): 101-121
15.    "Sephardic Heritage in Libya", Shofar,  10/3 (Spring 1992): 90-112
16.    "Mores and Chores as Determinants for Change among Jewish Women in Libya", Shorashim ba-Mizrah, 4 (1998): 183-198 [in Hebrew]; From Iberia to Diaspora [in English]
17.    "Jewish Female Education in the Ottoman Empire", A. Levy (ed.) Jews, Turks, Ottomans : a shared history,     fifteenth  through  the twentieth century (Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press,  2002): 127-152
18.    "The Social, Cultural and Political Impact of Zionism in Libya (Research Note)", Jewish Political Studies Review, 6 (1994): 127-133
19. "Between the Family and the Outside World: Jewish Girls in the Modern Middle East and North Africa", Jewish Social Studies 7/1 (2000):81-108
20.    "Shlichim from Palestine in Libya", Jewish Political Studies review, 9 (1997): 33-57
21.    "Reference Sources for Sephardic Studies", Judaica Librarianship, 9/1-2 (Spring 1994-Winter 1995): 144-151
22.    "Education" in Jews in the Modern Middle East and North Africa [Forthcomimg]
23.    "Zionism" in Jews in the Modern Middle East and North Africa [Forthcomimg]
24.    "And I will Remember You: Immigration from Libya" in Open and Secret: Mass Immigration to Israel from Muslim     Lands, 1948-1967 (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1999): 45-60 [in Hebrew]
25.    "Girls in the Zionist Youth Movements in Libya", in J,T, Baumel & T. Cohen (eds.), Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience : Re-placing Ourselves ( London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003): 199-212

Items in Encyclopedias & Reference Works

1. “ Algeria”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 15-16

2. “ Egypt and Sudan”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 159-160

3. “ Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 292-293

4.. “ Iraq”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 293-294

5. “ Libya”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 371-373

6. “Middle East”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 407-409

7. “ Morocco”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 421-422

8. “North Africa”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 454-455

9. “ Tunisia”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000): 602-603

10. “ Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism ( Chicago: Fitzroy

11. “Jewish Women and Women in Jewish Religion”, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures [Forthcoming]