Between "Ḥarat al-Yahud" and "Paris on the Nile": Social Mobility and Urban Culture among Jews in Twentieth-Century Cairo.

In this article I examine out-migration from old Cairo's Ḥarat al-Yahud (The Jews' Alley) to that city's urban expansions in the late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth. This migration was coupled with large-scale Jewish immigration to Cairo and intersected with its modern urban cult...

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Published in:	Jewish Social Studies Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 203 - 238
Main Author:	Tam, Alon
Format:	Article
Published:	Indiana University Press Summer2023
Subjects:	Social mobility Jews Urban growth Culture Public spaces Twentieth century 21st century (Literary period) Cairo (Egypt)
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