Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children-and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt-Ariella A?sha Azoulay examines the disruption of Jewish Muslim life in Algeria and broadly in the Maghreb and the Middle East by two colonial projects: French rule and the Zionist colonization of Palestine, which provoked the departure of Jews from these areas.
Jewelry making was a profession that marked the Algerian Jews' place in the world they shared in the ummah, the borderless community of Muslims. The objects they crafted continue to unsettle the clear-cut separation of Jews from Muslims and of Jews from Algeria. In this jewelry, and in the history of those who made, wore, and sold it, Azoulay finds a path to reviving the lost wisdom of her ancestors.
Emptying Africa of its Jews is a tragedy which Azoulay refuses to accept. In these letters, she reintroduces Muslim Jews to the violence of colonization and traces anticolonial pathways to rebuild the rich world of the jewelers of the ummah.
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The Jewelers of the Ummah
A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World
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- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Who Am I? Inhabiting the Jewish Muslim World
- Addressee Biographies
- Letter 1. Abba, Why Didn’t You Call Me Algeria?
- Letter 2. We Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes
- Letter 3. Your Earth Mother is My Earth Mother Too
- Letter 4. “With All My Being, I Refuse to Accept this Amputation”
- Letter 5. Lately, I Have Been Talking to my Ancestors
- Letter 6. The Jewelers of the Ummah
- Letter 7. “We Have Been Dispossessed of You”
- Letter 8. The Algerian Jewish Anticolonial Mother Did Exist!
- Letter 9. Gold Threads, Embroidery, and Guilds
- Letter 10. Between European Jews’ Experience and Ours
- Letter 11. It is a Miracle That We Still See Clearly Where the Sun Rises and Where It Sets
- Letter 12. The Disappearance of the Disappearance of Jews from Africa
- Letter 13. The Amnesia of Jews in the US is Only Half the Story; the Other Half has Never Been Told
- Letter 14. Fuck You, France, My Daughter is Islam
- Letter 15. Why Didn’T You Love Me in Ladino?
- Letter 16. The Granddaughters of Sycorax
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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