A History of the Jews in North Africa

Ḥaim Zeev Hirschberg

1965

[ . . . ] [A]n attempt will be made to present the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb, a large, well-defined diaspora which in some respects is different from other Jewish groups generally and from those of the Muslim East in particular.

This diaspora has been treated as a backwater of Jewish history. Jewish scholars mostly devoted their…

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Ḥaim Zeev Hirschberg

1903–1976

Israeli historian Ḥaim Zeev Hirschberg was born in Tarnopol, Galicia, and arrived in Palestine in 1943. A historian specializing in Jews of the Muslim world, Hirschberg in 1960 became a professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University, subsequently writing a two-volume study of the topic.

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