Jews in the Middle East - Judaism and Islam 

IN PROGRESS 2004-5

[COMPLIED BY STEPHEN LAMBDEN 2004-7]

GENERAL

Excellent bibliographies of Persian,  Sephardi, Middle Eastern and related Jewries can be found, for example, in the following volumes:

  • Martin Goodman et. al eds. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (Oxford: OUP., 2002)  especially Sarah Abrevaya Stein Ch 13 (Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries)  pp. 327-362.

Avishur, Y.

  •  1982. Studies on History and Culture of Iraqi Jewry. Or Yehuda.

 

Benbassa, Esther & Aron Rodrigue
 

  • Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 15th to 20th Centuries. University of California Press.  2000
     

Haker, Erol.

  • EDİRNE Its Jewish Community, and Alliance schools 1867-1937.,  2006 (216 pp.)
    ISBN : 975-428-315-X

 

Heribert Busse,Bernard Lewis, Andras Hamori (Ed), Allison Brown (trans. )

  • Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Theological and Historical Affiliations
    Markus Wiener Publisher, 1998

Goldberg, Harvey E.  (ed.)

  • Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture. Jewish Theological Seminary Of America/ Indiana University Press. 1996.

Itamar Levin, Rachel Neiman (Trans.)

  • Locked Doors: The Seizure of Jewish Property in Arab Countries. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001

Lewis, Bernard W. 

  • The Jews of Islam.  Princeton University Press, 1990
  • Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. March 1999

Newby, Gordon.

  •  A History of the Jews of Arabia. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
     

Rubin, Uri  (ed.), David J. Wasserstein (ed.)

  • Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam. Eisenbrauns,  1997

Shulewitz Malka H. (ed)

  • The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands. Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc.  2000

Stillman, Norman A.

  • The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book. Jewish Publication Society, 1990
  • The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times. Jewish Publication Society, 1991

    Stillman , Yedida K. & Norman A. Stillman (Eds. )
  • From Iberia to Diaspora : Studies in Sephardic History and Culture. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 1998 ,
  • Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity. Gordon & Breach Pub. Group. 1995
  • Tritton,  Arthur S.
    Caliphs and Their Non-Muslim Subjects: Critical Study of the Covenant of Umar. ADD :Frank Cass Publications. 1970
  • Ye'or, Bat, Paul Fenton (Trans.), David Maisel (Trans.), David Littman (Trans.)
    Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam Fairleigh: Dickinson University Press, 1998
     
  • Yeor, Bat, Miriam Kochan (Trans.), David Littman (Trans.)
    The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam : From Jihad to Dhimmitude: Seventh -Twentieth Century. Fairleigh : Dickinson University Press. 1997
  • Ye'or, Bat; Miriam Kochan & David Littman (Trans.)
    Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide.
    Fairleigh Dickinson University Press / December 2001

 

Gidney, W.T.

  • ADD     History of the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity amongst the Jews.

 

      JEWS IN PERSIA

Fischer, Michael

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Lavī, Ḥabīb. (d. 19XX).

  • 1956‑60  Tārīkh‑i Yahūdān‑i Irān.  Tehran: Kitāb Furushī‑ yi Barukhim. 3 vols. 

  • 1999     Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran (The Outset of the Diaspora). ed., &  abridged H. Ebrami, tr. G.W. Maschke. Costa Mesa: Mazda Pub.

Moreen, Vera B.

  • 1981 The Status of Religious Minorities in Safavid Iran between 1617 and 1661," JNES 40 :  119-134.

  •  1987 Iranian Jewry’s Hour of Peril and Heroism, A Study of Bābāī ibn Luṭf’s Chronicle (1617-1662). New York-Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research. 

  • 1999   `A Shī`ī Jewish “Debate” (munāẓara) in the Eighteenth Century’ JOAS 119   (1999), 570-589.

 

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Michael Shterenshis,

  • Tamerlane and the Jews ISBN: 0700716963  Curzon Press Limited , 200211 $75.00
     

JOSEPH WOLFF (1795-1862)

  • Wolff, Joseph (b. Weilersbach Germany 1795-d. Somerset, England May 2nd 1862), 19th Cent. Levitical Jew and son of a German Rabbi. He became a Christian missionary and often interacted with Jews in Iran and the wider Middle East. His several books are full of useful details though they have to be evaluated with care.

MJ           Missionary Journal and Memoir..  Rev & ed. John Bayford. New York:  E. Bliss & J. White, 1824  Vol.II‑III.

RML       Researches and Missionary Labours among the Jews, Mohammedans and                      Other  Sects. Philadelphia: Orin Rogers, 1st ed. 1835.  2nd ed. London: 1837...

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845, to ascertain the fate of Col. Stoddart and Captain Conolly. ADD

On Wolff see also:

Evan Hopkins, Hugh.

  • 1984       Sublime Vagabond: The Life of Joseph Wolff. 1984.

Palmer, H.P.

  • 1935        Jospeh Wolff, His Romantic Life and Travels.

Riggans, Walter,

  • 1998       `Joseph Wolff'  in Gerald, H. Anderson (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of  Christian Missions. Grand Rapids / Cambridge: William B, Eerdmans Co. 1998., p. 746.  

 

Jews of the Ottoman Empire / Turkish Jews

Ball, R. N.

  • 1999. An Adventure of Turkification (1923-1945): Turkish Jews During the Republican Period [Turkish], iletişim, Istanbul.

Van Lennep, Henry.J.

  • The Oriental Album, Twenty Illustrations in Oil Colors of the People and Scenery of Turkey, by Henry J. Van Lennep. Printed in New York by Anson D. F. Randolph in 1862. Contains 20  tinted lithographs by Charles Parsons after Van Lennep. NewYork: Endicott & Company 1862. 144pp.

Van Lennep, Henry.J.   [New Edition]
  • The Oriental Album, Dogu Albümü. Trans. Pars Tuglaci ( Parsegh Tuglacian ) Reprint of the "The Oriental Album: People and Scenery of Turkey" + Turkish Text. 1st printed in New York 1862, 144pp. (+ 20 Colour Litographs by Charles Parson)

 

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Dymshits, Valery,  

  • Facing West: Oriental Jews of Central Asia & the Caucasus. Waanders 1998.

  • ISBN: 9040092168  

 

BUKHARA  AND TASHKENT

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Benyaminov, Dr. Meyer,  

  • Bukharian Jews.   New Jersey: Gross Brothers of Union City, 1992. A  history and account of the lives of the Jews of Bukhara Central Asia. Contains numerous b&w portraits and other photographs. Includes chapters on, Origins of the Bukharian-Jewish Community, Early Culture and Education, Memorials and Historical Events, Traditions, as well as recent circumstances. Note this paper: Giora Fuzailoff, `Rabbinic Succession in Bukhara 1790-1930',  http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/journal/bukhara.htm

 

Βarnai, Y.

  • 1982. 'The Origins of the Jewish Community in Smyrna in the Ottoman Period [Hebrew]. Pe`amim 12: 47-58.
  •  1982 'Congregations in Smyrna in the Seventeenth Century.' Pe'amim 48: 66-8.1.
  • 1988.  "Blood Libels" in the Ottoman Empire of the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.' In Antisemitism through the Ages. 189-94. S.  Almog ed. Oxford.
  • 1990. 'On the History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire.' In Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Aspects of Material Culture. 18-35. E. Juhasz ed. Jerusalem. ֊
  • 19923. 'Messianism and Leadership: The Sabbatean Movement and the Leadership ol ihe Jewish Communities in the Ottoman Empire.' In Ottoman and Turkish Jewry. A. Rodrigue ed. Bloomington, Ind.
  • I992. 'The Sabbatean Movement in Smyrna: The Social Background.' In Jewish V, κ Religious Movements, unti Political Parties. 113-22. M. Mór ed. Omaha, Nehr.
  • 1993. 'Christian Messianism and lhe Portuguese Marranos: The Emergence ol S.ıhkı ii'.mİMiı in Smyrna.' ///7: 119-26.
  • 1997. 'Prototypes ol Leadership ina Sep h arti ic Community: Smyrna in ihe Seventeenth ı cnl líry.' In ( n•./.՝, tuul < 'onlinn'ilv in llic NC/I/KI/V/ÍC \Vorltl, ı i<;) /ο./Λ'. ı.ırı (ν). B. R. l ı,impel ni. New Yoı k. ı՛ \ N ı AN, M. ı ı. ı՛)՛) ı. ı ı vplo|e\vs in K ıo de l.ı l'l.ıl.ı in lhe Seventeenth ( enl u ı N: In .Yen Horizons in Sephurdit Studies. \) ı ՝> Stillman and G. K. Zucker ed< Albany, NY,