A Fragile Cradle
Writing Jewishness, Nationhood, and Modernity in Cairo, 1920-1940
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2746960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miccoli, Miccoli Miccoli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Social Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/jewisocistud.21.3.01 |
| OpenAlex | W2496692754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
On the basis of literary texts by four Jewish writers (Georges Cattaui, Emile Mosseri, Albert Staraselski, and Lucien Sciuto), this article tries to understand the models of Jewish cultural and political identity circulating in Cairo during the monarchic period, investigating the intellectual atmosphere of interwar Egypt and the numerous ways in which the Cairene Jewish middle and upper classes narrated their lives vis-a-vis their own ethnoreligious community, Egypt, Europe, and Zionism. Literary representations of Jewishness, nationhood, and modernity suggest that living in Egypt as a Jew meant belonging not only to a (semicolonial) national space, to whose imagination these four writers contributed, but also to a wider Mediterranean lieu de savoir (site of knowledge), at the crossroads of past ethnoreligious legacies and novel feelings of cultural and political belonging
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Feeling · Identity (music · Judaism · Literature · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Yiddish · Zionism · African history and culture analysis · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Conflicted Antiquities
Fallahin
The Nahḍa and the Haskala
Gatekeepers of the Arab PastHistorians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Working Out Egypt
Feminists, Islam, and Nation
Questions Of Modernity
Histories of the Jews of Egypt
Citizens of the World…Who Stopped on Every Shore
Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion, 1885-1910
Overcoming ‘Simply Being’
The Jewish Radical Right
Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs
Interlopers of Empire
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities
Reading Advertisements in a Colonial/Development Context
Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Buried Troves
The Egyptian Geographical Society
Citizens of a Fictional Nation
Jews in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Redefining The Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
La conversion des intellectuels au catholicisme en France (1885-1935)
Mediterranean Modernity through Jewish Eyes
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |