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New Essays on Sephardi and Mizrahi Modernity

The following is adapted from Anne Albert’s introduction to the forum in our pages.

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The Living Archive of the Jewish Community in Arab Countries

Today, Jews constitute only tiny communities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, but the region has a rich and varied Jewish past that is now preserved in an extensive reservoir of material culture. Numerous synagogues, cemeteries, ritual objects and other Judaica, and writings are dispersed across Arab and Islamic countries.

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French Jewish Studies

In recent issues, JQR has run forums dedicated to the state of Jewish studies seen through a regional lens, each with a unique organizing framework: see, for example, those on Eastern Europe (JQR 112.2) and Latin America (JQR 111.4).

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