Miqqedem Umiyyam Vol. 2: Studies in the Jewish Society in Islamic Countries and Sephardic Diaspora

Yossef Chetrit and Zvi Yehuda (eds.), Studies in the Jewish Society in Islamic Countries and Sephardic Diaspora, Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, 1986.

Eliezer Bashan, “Fires and Earthquarkes in Izmir from the Fifteentrh to the Nineteenth Centuries, and an Accusation against Jews for Arson”,

pp. 13-27.

Yaaqov Geller, “Inter-ethnic Relations in the Ottoman Empire”, pp. 29-54.

Yosef Tobi, “The National Authority of the Beth-Din of San’a in the eyes of the Muslim Authorities”, pp. 55-70.

Mishael M. Caspi, “Protection Payments in Yemen in the Twentieth Century as a Source for Understanding the Structure of the Community of San’a”, pp. 71-84.

Robert Cohen, “Beyond the New World: Poor Sephardic Jews in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam”, pp. 85-96.

Harvey Goldberg, “Tailors in Tripoli during the Colonial Period”, pp. 97-107.

Issachar Ben-Ami, “The Cult of Saints among Moroccan Jews: The Beginning of a Custom in Morocco and Israel”, pp. 109-125.

Joseph Chetrit, “New Consciousness of Anomaly and Language: The Beginnings of a Movement of Hebrew Enlightenment in Morocco at the end of Nineteenth Century”, pp. 129-168.

Michael M. Laskier, “Yom Tov David Semach and Moroccan Jewry: 1913-1940 (Analysis and Documentation)”, pp. 169-185.

Zvi Yehuda, “Toward a Study of a Jewish Community in Iraq in the Period of Change: The Jewish Community in Hilla – Changes in Education (1900-1914)”,

pp. 187-207.

Amnon Shiloah, “The Influence of the Kabbalah on the Development of Jewish Liturgical Hymns in Muslim Countries”, pp. 209-215.

David Mendelson, “Psalm Chants as a model for the Poetry of Edmond Jabès”, pp. 217-234.

Amnon Netzer, “Zionist Activity in Iran in the Years 1920-1926 in the Background of Politcal and Diplomatic Events in the Country and Internationally”, pp. 237-250.

Maurice Roumani, “Zionist Efforts to Bring about Change in the Jewish Community in Lybia in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century”, pp. 251-278.

Aliza Shenhar, “Aliyah in the folk tales of Various Jewish Ethnic Communities”, pp. 279-290.