This volume offers twelve studies based on lectures delivered by participants of the workshop. These studies deal with culture and history, customs and traditions from all North African Jewish communities. The studies are to a large extent based on documents housed in the Yale University Library. This volume is a continuation of volume 1 that appeared in 2011.
The articles in this volume:
Moshe Bar-Asher – Moroccan Traditions on Worshippers of the Golden Calf and Profaned Priests
Nathalie Akun – Vestiges of Eretz Israel in the Hebrew of Morocco
Avishai Bar-Asher – Tablets and Fragments of Tablets: Some Notes on R. Yehuda b. Yoseph Al-Carasani's Aron ha-'Edut
Yaakov Bentolila – The Nineteenth-Century Book of Records from the Jewish Community of Tangier and Its Contribution to a Dictionary of Hebrew Elements in Haketia
Ephraim Hazan and Rachel Hitin-Mashiah – Mi Khamokha, Local Piyyutim on Miraculous Deliverance in North African Jewish Communities
Yehudit Henshke – The Judeo-Arabic Origins of Modern Israeli Idioms and Proverbs
Nahem Ilan – A Letter of Intervention on Behalf of the Greek Patriarch Egypt
Aharon Maman – Textual Metonymy in Jewish Languages
Jessica M. Marglin – Cooperation and Competition among Jewish and Islamic Courts: Double Notarization in Nineteenth-Century Morroco
Ariel Shaveh – Trends in Contemporary North African Prayer Books
Joseph Tedghi – An Unpublished Responsum by Rabbi Yoseph Messas about Jewish Marriage Contracts
Ofra Tirosh-Bedker – A Reflection of a Linguistic Reality: An Algerian Judeo-Arabic Book for the New Year
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