Lebanon's Jewish Community Fragments of Lives Arrested /

• Main Author: Salameh, Franck (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; World politics.; Religion and politics.; Citizenship.; Identity politics.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Political History.; Politics and Religion.; Politics and Gender.

This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country's Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarel...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Prolegomenon: When Lebanon Loved the Jews
• 2. Lebanon of the Jews: An Introduction
• 3. Lebanese Jewry: Memory Fragments
• 4. Rootedness and Exile: Holocaust and Aftermath
• 5. Lebanese Jewish Memory and Memorial: Personal Recollections
• 6. Through the Eyes of Others: History's Reckoning
• 7. On Lebanese Jewish History and Memory: A Conclusion.