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Title: The Mellah Society. Jewish Community Life in Sherifian Morocco.
Description: Chicago and London:: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. 0226143392. Revised and Translated from the Hebrew by the author. "This study straddles two disciplines, history and social anthropology..The documentary sources are rich. They comprise over thirty collections of the legal responsa of rabbis who served in the Jewish community courts of eighteenth and nineteenth century Morocco." Pp.xiv/152, 16 pages of black & white photos and illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

Keywords: Deshen Mellah Society Jewish Community Sherifian Morocco Citations Maghrebi Anthropology History Politics Muslim Moroccans Population Occupations Self Rule Negidim Taxation Charity Synagogues 48515 Anthropology

Price: GBP 20.00 = appr. US$ 28.56 Seller: Chilton Books
- Book number: 46985

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