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By (author) Salameh, Franck; By (author) Salameh Franck
Short /annotation
This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations.
This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.
Table of contents
1. Prolegomenon: When Lebanon Loved the Jews
2. Lebanon of the Jews: An Introduction
3. Lebanese Jewry: Memory Fragments
4. Rootedness and Exile: Holocaust and Aftermath
5. Lebanese Jewish Memory and Memorial: Personal Recollections
6. Through the Eyes of Others: History’s Reckoning
7. On Lebanese Jewish History and Memory: A Conclusion
Review quote
“Salameh’s writing is accessible and informative … . Bringing together studies like Salameh’s with the now wealth of studies on Jews in distinct Middle Eastern countries, using a comparative approach, may greatly enrich our understanding of this important topic.” (Caroline Kahlenberg, Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Vol. 10 (2), 2019)
Biographical note
Franck Salameh is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College, USA.
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This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.
Franck Salameh is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College, USA.
Endorsement
“Franck Salameh’s work on Lebanese Jewry is an important contribution to the literature on the tragic and forgotten fate of the Jewish communities expelled from Arab lands after the creation of the State of Israel. His unique study combines meticulous historical research and personal testimonies, offering new insights into the lives of a small minority in cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Lebanon before 1975. Highly recommended for both academic and general readers who are interested in the old Lebanon.” (Meir Zamir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and Author of The Formation of Modern Lebanon and Lebanon’s Quest)
“A deeply researched, solid piece of scholarship, in an area that very few dare explore; history that reads like a thriller.” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York University, USA, and Author of The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game)<
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