Böcker av Esther Benbassa

An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.

Das Buch Jude sein nach Gaza ist ein ethischer Aufschrei der renommierten jüdischen Professorin Esther Benbassa anlässlich der Leiden der Zivilbevölkerung Gazas während des letzten Feldzuges Israels. Für sie führt das Angedenken an die durch den Holocaust vernichteten Juden zu der Verpflichtung Israels sich human und ethisch zu verhalten. Sie zeigt, wie die Shoah das israelische sowie das jüdische Selbstverständnis prägt und leitet aus dem Gedenken an den Holocaust das Gebot ab, auch die Leiden der Palästinenser anzuerkennen. Zugleich vergibt sie palästinensischen Politikern weder verpasste Friedensmöglichkeiten noch den Terrorismus. Sie verteidigt Israels Existenz, tritt für einen palästinensischen Staat ein und analysiert die Gründe ungenutzter Friedenschancen. Dieses Buch löst in Frankreich intensive Diskussionen aus und ist dort ein Bestseller.

Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardi world. Gabriel Arié's writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. His history is a fascinating memoir of the Sephardi and Levantine bourgeoisie of the time. For his entire life, Arié--teacher, historian, community leader, and businessman--was caught between East and West. Born in a small provincial town in Ottoman Bulgaria in 1863, he witnessed the disappearance of a social and political order that had lasted for centuries and its replacement by new ideas and new ways of life, which would irreversibly transform Jewish existence.A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe publishes in full the autobiography (covering the years 1863-1906) and journal (1906-39) of Gabriel Arié, along with selections from his letters to the Alliance Israélite Universelle. An introduction by Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue analyzes his life and examines the general and the Jewish contexts of the Levant at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardi world. Gabriel Aris writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. His history is a fascinating memoir of the Sephardi and Levantine bourgeoisie of the time. For his entire life, Ariteacher, historian, community leader, and businessmanwas caught between East and West. Born in a small provincial town in Ottoman Bulgaria in 1863, he witnessed the disappearance of a social and political order that had lasted for centuries and its replacement by new ideas and new ways of life, which would irreversibly transform Jewish existence.A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe publishes in full the autobiography (covering the years 1863-1906) and journal (1906-39) of Gabriel Ari, along with selections from his letters to the Alliance Isralite Universelle. An introduction by Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue analyzes his life and examines the general and the Jewish contexts of the Levant at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

Focusing on the distinctive Judeo-Spanish cultural entity that flourished in the Balkans and Asia Minor for more than four centuries, this title shows how Sephardi society and culture developed in the Levant, sharing language, religion, customs, and communal life as they did nowhere else.