Retracing the jews of the Maghreb al-Aqsa
- Autores: Angelika Tunis
- Localización: Anales del Museo Nacional de Antropología, ISSN 1135-1853, Nº 11, 2005, págs. 231-250
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Judaisme as religión and Weltanschauung in North África can be traced back 2300 years. The áreas along the Mediterranean shore to the Mediterranean Crescent, through the Maghreb al-Aqsa - the land of the farthest west ? dotun to the Sahara desert and beyond to the Guinea Goast represented a strategic epicentre oftrade, people, news and knowledge.
Jews were an essential link in this pre-modem "internet", from ancient times up to the foundation ofthe State of Israel 1948. They could be found in rural environment as wellas in the imperial cities, henee often combining rural and urban traditions. This anide means to identify and illustrate the lifestyles and influences of North and West African Jews, as well as point out their contributions to the artistic and social traditions and various local identities of these regions.
