scholarly journals ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE: OSMANLI YAHUDİLERİNİN DÖNÜŞÜMÜNDE BİR İTİCİ GÜÇ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evrim GÖRMÜŞ
Keyword(s):  
Alliance Israelite Universelle

Creating Cultural Capital: The Education of Jewish Females at the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) School for Girls in the City of Tunis, 1882–1914

Hawwa ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-59
Author(s):  
Joy A. Land
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Wage ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The City ◽  
Alliance Israelite Universelle

Abstract Based on rarely viewed images from the fin de siècle, this article will contribute to the burgeoning field of Jewish women in the world of Islam. At the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) School for Girls in the city of Tunis, 1882–1914, after a seven-year course of study, Jewish and non-Jewish girls acquired certification of their academic or vocational skills through a certificate or diploma of couture. Such credentials, according to Bourdieu (1986), constitute “cultural capital.” Furthermore, “cultural capital … is convertible … into economic capital and may be institutionalized in the forms of educational qualifications.” A young woman could create cultural capital and transform it into economic capital through employment. Reading the sources, the influence of the Tunisian Muslim woman on the Jewess becomes apparent. Moreover, cultural capital could afford the Jewish female wage earner increased economic independence and social mobility, as she journeyed on the road to modernity.

Fractured Messages in a Common Tongue: France’s Educational Emissaries

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Dueck
Keyword(s):  
Political Struggles ◽  
French Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
French Education ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Alliance Israelite Universelle

This chapter discusses the French cultural networks, addressing various conflicts and contrary agendas among players who were all ostensibly united in their goal to provide a French education for local children. French culture in the Levant during the 1930s and 1940s is inseparable from the person of Gabriel Bounoure. He combined a single-minded devotion to promoting French culture with flexibility and sophistication in his approach to both Syro-Lebanese and French political struggles. The discussion also addresses the effects of the successive Vichy and Free French administrations on the status of three specific groups of private educators: the Catholic missions, the secular Mission laïque française, and the Jewish Alliance israélite universelle.

The School Ghetto in France

2009 ◽  
pp. 222-234
Author(s):  
Ami Bouganim
Keyword(s):  
New School ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jewish Schools ◽  
Jewish School ◽  
Alliance Israelite Universelle

This chapter examines the school ghetto in France. The Jewish school in France was never conceived or planned; it just created itself behind the backs of community institutions. The first modern Jewish institution in the country with a pedagogical vocation, the Alliance Israélite Universelle, was founded in 1860 and decided against opening schools in France. However, in the middle of the 1990s it was finally decided to create a new school in France. But the new institution, the Établissement Georges Leven, was fraught with many problems. During this period, the students in Pavillons-sous-Bois continued to attend classes in unhealthy conditions. The chapter shows how the history of Jewish schools in France is a reflection of what happened with the Pavillons-sous-Bois school.

2. Modern Jewish nationalism, 1872–1897

2016 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Michael Stanislawski
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Internal Development ◽  
Moses Mendelssohn ◽  
Russian Jews ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
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The true historical invention of modern Jewish nationalism was the result of an internal development within the Jewish Enlightenment movement known as the Haskalah. The Haskalah began in Germany in the mid-eighteenth century under the aegis of Moses Mendelssohn, one of the most formidable philosophers of his age. “Modern Jewish Nationalism, 1872–1897” outlines early Jewish nationalist ideology including Peretz Smolenskin’s periodical Ha-Shahar (The dawn), founded in 1868; Russian Jews Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; Leon Pinsker; the Alliance Israélite Universelle, set up to improve the conditions of the Jews around the world; and the movements Bilu and Love of Zion that set up agricultural communities in Palestine.

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