Published December 1, 2023 | Version v1
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Libya

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Description

Entry "Libya" in the collection "Legacy of the Jewish People across the Middle East and North Africa" by the World Jewish Congress. The collection of materials aims to highlight the history and culture of Middle Eastern and north African Jewry in the modern period.

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/legacy-of-jews-in-MENA

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/legacy-of-jews-in-MENA/country/libya

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Dates

Accepted
2023-06-20
Available
2023-12-01

References

  • Baldinetti, Anna (2010). The Origins of the Libyan Nation. Colonial legacy, exile and the emergence of a new nation-state. Routledge. De Felice, Renzo (1985). Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835–1970, transl. Judith Roumani. University of Texas Press. Di Giulio, Francesca and Cresti, Federico (eds) (2016). Rovesci della fortuna. La minoranza italiana in Libia dalla seconda guerra mondiale all'espulsione 1940-1970. Aracne. Haggiag-Liluf, Yakov (2005). Storia degli ebrei di Libia. Merkaz Moreshet Yahadut Luv. Haggiag-Liluf, Yakov (2007). "HaDemographia", in Saadoun, Haim (ed). Libya. A.R.T. Printing, 23-32. (In Hebrew) Goldberg, Harvey (1971). "Ecologic and demographic Aspects of Rural Tripolitanian Jewry: 1853-1949." International Journal of Middle East Studies 2, 245-265. Goldberg, Harvey E. (1972). Cave Dwellers and Citrus Growers. A Jewish community in Libya and Israel. Cambridge University Press. Hoppe, Jens (2018). "The Persecution of Jews in Libya Between 1938 and 1945. An Italian Affair?", in Boum, Aomar and Stein, Sarah Abrevaya (eds). The Holocaust and North Africa, Stanford University Press, 50-75. Roumani, Maurice (2008). The Jews of Libya. Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement. Sussex Academic Press. Roumani, Jacques, Meghnagi, David, Roumani Judith (eds) (2018). Jewish Libya. Memory & Identity in Text & Image. Syracuse University Press. Rossetto, Piera (2021). "'We Were all Italian!': The Construction of a 'sense of Italianness' among Jews from Libya (1920s-1960s)." History and Anthropology. DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1848821 Saadoun, Haim (ed) (2007). Libya. A.R.T. Printing. (In Hebrew) Simon, Rachel (1992). Change within Tradition among Jewish Women in Libya. University of Washington Press.