Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times Paperback – March 1, 2003

The Paris-based Alliance Israelite Universelle provided excellent French education to underprivileged Jewish boys and girls in over a hundred schools from Tangier to Teheran. The children would benefit immensely as this would give them the opportunity to better themselves and advance in their careers. Comprehensive and searching reports were sent back to France by specially trained inspectors of both local living conditions and teaching standards so that the bar could be set as high as possible. Rodrigue has judiciously selected a cross section of these insightful letters so that we can sense and feel what it must have been like growing up in, for example, Morocco or Turkey before World War11 when France, Britain and a fading Ottoman Empire still held sway.

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