Histories of the Jews of Egypt by Dario Miccoli - 9780367870492

Histories of the Jews of EgyptAn Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s\nAuthor(s): Dario Miccoli\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367870492, 978-0367870492\nSynopsis\nUp until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country. \n\nHistories of the Jews of Egypt argues that this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as \""an imagined bourgeoisie\"". It demonstrates how, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1950s, a resilient bourgeois imaginary developed and influenced the lives of Egyptian Jews both in the public arena, in institutions such as the school, and in the home. From the schools of the Alliance Isralite Universelle and the Cairo lyce franais to Alexandrian marriage contracts and interwar Zionist newspapers this book explains how this imaginary was characteri.