Miqqedem Umiyyam

The series Miqqedem Umiyyam is dedicated to the study of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East, their evolution and their social and cultural life during the times, especially in the three last centuries, and to the study of the forms of their specific Jewish existence and its projection in other communities. The communities which interest us are not only the urban and well-founded ones, which marked greatly the communal history, the history of other communities and Jewish creation by their literary or halachic works or by their cultural life under its various aspects. The studies concern the small communities too, which lived in the periphery and struggled till their dispersal for their specific and general heritage and for protecting their Jewish identity in a foreign and even hostile environment.

The goal is to contribute to the knowledge about the Jewish past in Muslim countries, the  conditions of its evolution, its management and its various experiences, and about the determining political, social, economic and cultural relations that Jewish communities established with the Muslim society and with the elite and popular culture into which they lived and developed. Another objective is to contribute to the understanding of the continuity of Jewish life in changing historical and cultural conditions and for the explicitation of Jewish existence strategies that were forged during these experiences. This continuity doesn’t concern only the evolution of Jewish life in its natural environment but also the conditions of its transfer willy-nilly to new geo-political and cultural areas and its changing or maintaining into the new
environment.

Editorial Board of the series Miqqedem Umiyyam

Joseph Chetrit, Yitzhak Avishur, Aryeh Grabois, Haim Saadoun, Yosef Tobi

Series editor:

Joseph Chetrit

Editorial Board Secretary

Sol Azuelos-Attias