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Qajar Dynasty

(5 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Iran/PersiaNorman A. Stillman

Proverbs

(2,708 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman | Galit Hasan-Rokem | Ora Schwarzwald
1. Judeo-ArabicAs in many traditional cultures, Arabic-speaking Jews drew upon a rich lexicon of proverbs, maxims, and aphorisms in both oral and written expression. These gnomic expressions, in addition to being original creations, derived from a variety of sources. The specifically Jewish sources included biblical and rabbinic literature, and the principal non-Jewish source was the local Arab milieu. Specifically Muslim dicta from the Qur’an and ḥadīth rarely entered Judeo-Arabic usage. Rather,…
Date: 2015-09-03

Tamnougalt

(4 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Dra’aNorman A. Stillman

Francos

(9 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Italian Jews (Benei Roma); Leghorn (Livorno)Norman A. Stillman

HaLevi

(5 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see also LeviNorman A. Stillman

Paris

(4 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see FranceNorman A. Stillman

Hilperine, Wolf

(6 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Em ha-BanimNorman A. Stillman

Amram ben Diwan

(453 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Amram ben Diwan is one of the best-known saints (Heb. ṣaddiqim) in the pantheon of Moroccan Jewish holy men. According to tradition, he was a rabbinical emissary (Heb. shadar or meshullaḥ) from Hebron, who arrived in Morocco with his son, Ḥayyim, sometime in the eighteenth century and took up residence in Fez. When Ḥayyim fell gravely ill, Rabbi Amram prayed, offering his life for that of his son, who miraculously recovered. Shortly thereafter, while on a visit to Ouezzane to collect funds for the religious institutions in Hebron, he fell ill and died and was buried in the nearby cemetery of As…

Midelt

(6 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Atlas Mountains (Morocco)Norman A. Stillman

Kasba Tadla

(6 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Atlas MountainsNorman A. Stillman

Romanelli, Samuel

(581 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Samuel Romanelli was born in Mantua on September 19, 1757. Little is known about his youth, but clearly he had a superb Jewish and secular education in the Italian Jewish tradition. An accomplished linguist, he was fluent in ten languages. He was a poet, playwright, and translator of European literature into Hebrew. In 1786, while returning home to Italy from London, he was stranded in Gibraltar (see Gibraltar) and, strapped for funds, accepted an offer to accompany a merchant on a business trip to Morocco. Losing his passport, Roman…

Rassemblement Mondial du Judaïsme Marocain

(14 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Zionism in the Maghreb to be combinedNorman A. Stillman

Barukh, Marco

(392 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Marco (Joseph Marcou) Barukh, an early apostle of pre-Herzlian Zionism in the Muslim world, was born in Constantinople in 1872. He studied at several European universities and because of his involvement in radical student groups was under police surveillance for much of his brief adult life. His involvement with Jewish nationalism began in 1893 when he joined the Kadimah student association in Vienna. The following year he was in Algeria, where he tried to propagate the Jewish national idea among the rapidly assimilating Algerian Jews. He published a short-lived journal,  Le Juge, bu…

Pahlavi Dynasty and Islamic Republic

(8 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Iran/PersiaNorman A. Stillman

Rāghib

(7 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Elisha ben Samuel (Rāghib)Norman A. Stillman

Imi-n-Tanout

(4 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see SousNorman A. Stillman

Lévy, Sam

(7 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Halevy, Samuel SaadiNorman A. Stillman

Hadramawt

(4 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see HabbanNorman A. Stillman

Saints' Tombs

(10 words)

Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Pilgrimages and Pilgrimage Rituals, Saints' TombsNorman A. Stillman
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