In:
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 35, No. 3-4 ( 1980-08), p. 764-783
Abstract:
This article analyses the manner in which the two Jewish communities of Jerba have preserved their local cohesion and identity by erecting and rearranging various boundaries with the "other", i.e., their immediate Muslim neighbors. The emphasis thus moves away from the broad range of cultural features Jerban Jews share with their non-Jewish neighbors and focusses on the borderline, on the explicit manifestations and strategies of identification and on the structure of communication between Jews and Muslims in Jerba. Recent changes, external and internal, have rendered the continual application of this strategy of maintaining Jerban-Jewish identity increasingly difficult in Jerba itself and virtually impossible anywhere else.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0395-2649
,
1953-8146
DOI:
10.3406/ahess.1980.282667
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1980
detail.hit.zdb_id:
298-7
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2209294-8
SSG:
8,2
