The step-sister of Yiddish culture: Judeo-Arabic literature in Tunisia

Tel Aviv Review

English - August 07, 2015 15:56 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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Prof. Yosef Toby, professor emeritus of Medieval Hebrew poetry at the University of Haifa, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the cultural golden age of Tunisian Jews, and their being torn between European acculturation and cultural conservatism.