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1 Online-Ressource (300 p)
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9789004288669
Series Statement:
Brill's Series in Jewish Studies v.54
Content:
Contents -- Abbreviations for Archival Sources -- Various Va'adot: An Explanatory Note -- Glossary of Terms -- Rulers of Afghanistan (1747-1973) -- Note on Hebrew Transliteration -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Entrepreneurial Minorities and Anti-Semitism in Afghanistan -- Encountering Nationalist Sentiments in Afghanistan -- Historiographical Trends -- Archival Sources -- Chapter 2 Modern Jewish Settlement in Afghanistan: Origins and Customs -- Theories on the Origins of Afghanistani Jewry -- Jewish Settlement in Mashhad -- Jewish Settlement in Afghanistan -- The Forcible Conversion of the Mashhadi Community -- The Persian Siege of Herat -- Daily Life among the Jews of Afghanistan -- Betrothal and Marriage Customs -- Women's Experiences -- Men's Lives -- Communal Structures and Social Control -- Peddlers and Merchants -- Inter-Communal Ties: The Turkmen-Jewish Relationship -- International Connections through Trade -- Chapter 3 A Survey of the Modern Political and Economic History of Afghanistan (1747-1933) -- Afghanistan's Foundation -- The First Anglo-Afghan War: Encountering the British Empire -- Dost Muhammad Khan: Consolidating Afghanistan's Borders -- Second Anglo-Afghan War: Limiting Afghanistan's Independence -- Shattering Afghanistan's Ethnic Mosaic: The Rule of the 'Iron Amir' -- Negotiating ʻAbd al-Rahman's Rule: The Challenges to the Jewish Community -- Habibullah Khan: Edging Towards Full Sovereignty -- The Jewish Community under Habibullah: A Resumption of Commerce -- World War I and Its Political Legacy -- Amanullah: Imagination without Grounding -- Minorities under Amanullah: A Time of Tolerance -- Hindus -- The Hazara -- Jews -- Amanullah's Encouragement of Education -- Patterns of Jewish Education -- A Less Tolerated Minority: The Ahmadiyas -- Reform and Revolt -- Habibullah Kalakani: Reign of Terror -- Minorities under Kalakani
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Muhammad Nadir's Rise -- The Rule of Muhammad Nadir Shah: Pacification and Consolidation -- Chapter 4 Northern Afghanistan's Soviet Refugee Crisis (1932-1936) -- Causes of the Refugee Crisis -- Consequences for Central Asian Jewry -- Afghan Response to Refugees -- Muslim Refugees -- Christian Refugees -- Jewish Refugees: Petitioning for Assistance -- Viewing Refugees as Spies: Afghan and British Perceptions -- Comparing Refugee Policy in Afghanistan and Persia -- The Expulsion of the Local Jewish Population -- Riot in Herat during the Summer of 1935 -- Implications of the Expulsion of the Afghanistani Jews from the North -- British Jewry's Reactions to the Afghanistani Community -- Official British Response -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Afghan Economic Policies in the 1930s -- Economic Policies: The Bank-i Milli and the Rise of the MonopolySystem -- The Shirkat System's Impact on the Karakul Trade -- Political Aims of the Monopoly System: Limiting Soviet Influence -- Case Study: Jacob Pinhas, a Jewish Karakul Trader -- Consequences of the Monopoly System: An Economic Downturn -- Successful Opposition to the Shirkat System: The Fruit Trade -- Da Afghanistan Bank: A Failed Check on the Power of the Bank-i Milli -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 World War II's Impact on Afghanistan -- Pre-War Anxiety -- German Influence -- The Nazi Party in Afghanistan -- Nazi Influenced Anti-Semitism -- 'Abd al-Majid Khan: Primary Negotiator with the Third Reich -- Link between anti-Communism and anti-Semitism in Afghan Policy -- Replacing German Specialists with Jews: First Contact between Afghanistan and the Yishuv -- The Precarious Situation of Jews in Afghanistan during World War II -- Refugee Crisis in India: A Precarious Medical and Legal Situation -- Causes of Refugee Crisis -- Deportation from Peshawar -- Negotiating with British Authorities
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Conflict between the Jewish Agency and Afghanistani Va'adot in Eretz Yisrael -- Legal Emigration from Afghanistan: The Role of JewishOrganizations -- Persecution in the Muslim World -- Afghan Rationale for Legal Emigration: Gaining Supportfor Pashtunistan -- Prejudice against the Jewish Community Lessened through Afghan Myth of Ethnogenesis -- Emigration Commences -- Afghanistani Jews Entering and Languishing in Iran -- Situation Improves After 1952 -- Forcible Conversion in the 1950s: Tova Shamualoff's Kidnapping -- The Last Jew of Kabul -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Patterns of Jewish Correspondencein the 1930s -- Bibliography -- Plate Section: Daily Life in 1940s Kabul -- Index
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Print version Koplik, Sara A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan Leiden : BRILL,c2015 ISBN 9789004288669
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