{"product_id":"sacred-places-tell-tales-jewish-life-and-heritage-in-modern-cairo-hardback-9781512825886","title":"Sacred Places Tell Tales; Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo (Hardback) 9781512825886","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSacred Places Tell Tales\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYoram Meital (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512825886\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Expansive and inclusive in its perception of various Egyptian Jewish communities, \u003ci\u003eSacred Places Tell Tales\u003c\/i\u003e offers a multifaceted exploration of Jewish cultural heritage sites in Egypt, away from the limiting analysis of national historiographies.\" (Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago) \"Meital's groundbreaking study \u003ci\u003eSacred Places Tell Tales\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the changes in the Egyptian Jewish community from 1875 to the present through an examination of eleven synagogues still standing in Cairo...The study of the eleven synagogues reveals the heterogeneous nature of the Jewish community in Cairo during this period. Meital's examination of the synagogues' architectural style, documents, religious texts, and the broad array of activities and social services they offered allows him to reconstruct a complex picture of Jewish life and identity.\" (Jewish Book Council)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSacred Places Tell Tales\u003c\/i\u003e is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews. Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo's synagogues as exquisite storytellers. The synagogues still stand in Cairo, and they shed new light on the social, cultural, and political processes that Egyptian society and the Jews underwent from 1875 to the present. Studying old and new synagogues in the Egyptian capital, their locations, the items they stored, and the range of religious and nonreligious activities they hosted reveals the social heterogeneity and the diverse ways in which modern Jewish sociocultural identity was constructed within Cairo's Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Karaite communities. Meital contends that studying the congregations and the social services provided in synagogues reveals the local Jewish community's customs, cultural preferences, socioeconomic gaps, and class divisions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSacred Places Tell Tales\u003c\/i\u003e narrates not only the past but also the unprecedented transformations that have occurred in recent years in Egypt. While only a handful of Jews live in Egypt, the preservation of Jewish heritage, first and foremost synagogues and cemeteries, enjoy a growing interest in public discourse and popular culture. This new desire to preserve Jewish heritage is inseparable from the ongoing public debate about Egyptian society, its characteristics, and its identity, past and present. By contextualizing Jewish heritage preservation in a longer Egyptian and Jewish history, Meital opens a window into one of the most significant political discussions dividing Egyptian society today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Threshold of a New Era\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Sacred Jewish Spaces\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Al-Tamsir: Egyptianization of State and Society\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Jewish Heritage and Debating Egypt's Past and\u003cbr\u003e Present\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Living Archive\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681228910872,"sku":"9781512825886","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sacred-places-tell-tales-jewish-life-and-heritage-in-modern-cairo-hardback-9781512825886","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}