Yaron Tsur
List of Publications
Books
1. The Jews of Casablance: A Study of Modernization in a Colonial Jewish Society, The Open University Press, Tel-Aviv 1995 (Hebrew. in collaboration with H. Hillel).
2. A Torn Community: The Jews of Morocco and Nationalism 1943-1954, Am Oved, Tel-Aviv, 2001. (Hebrew)
3. Notables and other Jews in the Ottoman Middle East 1759-1830, Mossad Bialik, Jerusalem 2016 (in Print) (Hebrew)
Text books
1. Jews in an Era of Transformation: Introduction to Modern Jewish History, The Open University Press, 4 vols., Tel-Aviv, 1978-1980. (Hebrew. In collaboration with H. Wasserman, I. Bartal, M. Ben-Sasson, Y. Tobi. Spanish translation: En Una Era de Transicion, Tel Aviv, 1981. Revised Russian translation is under preparation)
2. The Jews of Yemen - History and Culture, vol. 2, The Legal Status, The Open University Press, Tel-Aviv 1988. (Hebrew. in collaboration with Y. Toby)
3. The Evolution of a Culture: The Jews of Tunisia and other Muslim Countries, Shazar,Jerusalem, 2003. (Hebrew)
3. Jews in Muslim Lands on the Eve of Modern Times (1750-1830),
The Open University Press, Tel-Aviv, 2004 (Hebrew. temporary edition).*
4. Jews in Muslim Land in the outset of the Era of Reform,
The Open University Press, Tel-Aviv, 2004 (Hebrew. temporary edition).*
5. Jews in Muslim Land After the Crimean War, The Open University Press, Tel-Aviv, 2005 (Hebrew. temporary edition).*
Chapters in books
1. “The Jews ofMoroccoin the Colonial Period”, in H. Sadoun (ed.,), The Jews of Morocco, Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem 2004, pp. 47-76. (Hebrew)
2. "Outside of Europe: The Origins of Moroccan Zionism and its Evolution", in: Gal Allon (ed.), World Regional Zionism: Geo-Cultural Dimensions, Volume 2, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Jerusalem, 2010, pp. 203-271. (Hebrew)
3. Y. Tsur, "Religious Internationalism in the Jewish Diaspora – Tunis at the Dawn of the Colonial Period", in: Abigail Green and Vincent Viaene (ed.), Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750 (Palgrave MacMillan Transnational History), Palgrave MacMillan London 2012, pp. 186-205.
* A textbook based on extensive personal research
Articles
1) "A Divided Community in Times of Crisis: The Jews of Tunisunder Nazi Occupation", in: Institute of Contemporary Jewry Year Book, 2(1985), pp. 153-175. (Hebrew)
2) "The Two Jewish Communities of Tunis (Touansa and Grana)", in: Proceedings of 9th World Congress of Jewish Studies,Jerusalem, 1987, vol. III, pp.67-73. (Hebrew)
3) "The Impact of the Colonial Situation on the Evolution of Zionist Activity in North Africa" in: Institute of Contemporary Jewry Year Book, 4(1987), pp. 136-123. (Hebrew)
4) "Prélude aux relations judéo-françaises à l'époque coloniale: les rapports entre les marchands juifs et les Français en Algérie au XVIII-début XIX siècle", dans: I. Malkin )ed.), La France et la Méditerranée, Brill,Leiden, 1990, pp.401-411.
5) "The Jews of Tunisia at the End of the Pre-Colonial Period", in: Miqeddem Umiyyam, III: Tradition and Modernity in the North African and Oriental Jewry, Haifa University Press,Haifa 1990, pp.79-113. (Hebrew)
6) "The 'Mafia' of Caid Yehuda", Zmanim, 34-35 (Summer 1990), pp.142-151. (Hebrew)
7) "Ha'apala and the Formation of National Society: The Influence of Clandestine Immigration from Moroccoon the ties between Israeland Moroccan Jewry", in: Zionism, 15 (1991), pp.145-174. (Hebrew)
8) "The Religious Factor in the Encounter between Zionism and the Atlas Jews", in J. Reinharz, A. Shapira, and Sh. Almog (eds.), Zionism and Religion,Jerusalem andBoston:ZalmanShazarCenter and Tauber Institute, 1994, pp. 385-405. (Hebrew and English)
9) Y. Tsur, "Jewish 'Sectional Societies' in Franceand Algeriaon the Eve of the Colonial Encounter", Journal of Mediterranean Studies, vol.4, no.2, 1994, pp.263-277.
10) "Haskala in a Sectional Colonial Society: Mahdia )Tunisia) 1884", in Goldberg, H. )ed.), Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History & Culture in the Modern Era, Indiana University Press,Bloomington, 1996, pp.146-167.
11) "L'époque coloniale et les rapports 'ethniques' au sein de la communauté juive en Tunisie", in: Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue (éds.), Mémoires juives d'Espagne et du Portugal, Publisud, Paris, 1996, pp.197-206.
12) "Les dirigeants du judaïsme marocain et l'Indépendance", in: Michel Abitbol (ed.), Relations judéo-musulmanes au Maroc. Perceptions et réalités, Stavit et CRJM, Paris, 1997, pp. 225-236.
13) "Diaspora Nationalism in the Face of Catastrophes", in Weitz, Y. (ed.), From Vision to Revision: A Hundred Years of Historiography of Zionism,Jerusalem: ShazarCenter, 1997, pp. 171-192. (Hebrew)
14) "Carnival Fears – Moroccan Immigrants and the Ethnic Problem in the YoungStateof Israel", The Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 18 (1997), no. 1, pp. 73-103.
15) “The Immigration from Islamic Counties in the First Decade ofIsrael”, Idan, 20, Yad Ben Zvi,Jerusalem, 1997, pp. 57-82. (Hebrew)
16) “On the Identity Problem in the Maghrib”, in Ronen, Y. (ed.), The Maghrib: Politics, Society, Economy,DayanCenter, Tel-Aviv, 1998, pp. 23-28. (Hebrew)
17) “The Jew transmigrates and imagines a nation”, introduction to the Hebrew translation of Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, The Open University Press, Tel-Aviv, 1999, pp. 15-30. (Hebrew).
18) “The Ethnic Problem”, in Z. Zameret and H. Yablonka (eds.), The Second Decade 1958-1968, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 2000, pp. 101-124. (Hebrew)
19) “The Jews of Islamic Countries in the 20th Century”, in A. Naor (ed.), The Jewish People in the 20th Century, ShazarCenter and Beit Hatfuzot, n.p., [2000], pp. 370-375. (Hebrew)
20) “The Funerals Incident: The Jews of Tunis and the passage to Colonial Rule”, Zion, 66, no. 1 (2001), pp. 73-102. (Hebrew)
21) “L’AIU et le judaïsme marocain en 1949: l’émergence d’une nouvelle démarche politique”, Archives Juives, n°. 34/1, 1er semestre 2001, pp. 54-73.
22) "The Beginnings of Communal Organization in Casablanca", in: Kehal Yisrael : Jewish Self-Rule Through the Ages, Vol. 3, The Modern Period, Edited byIsrael Bartal,ShazarCenter,Jerusalem, pp. 165-189.
23) “The Ethnic Problem in the Jewish Agency’s Discussions at the end of the 1950s Mass Immigration”, Israel: Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel – History, Society, Culture, 2 (2002), pp.81-106. (Hebrew)
24) “Reflections of a Foreign Scholar on the Popular Literature of the Tunisian Jews”, Shorashim Ba-Mizrah, 5 (2002), pp. 210-228. (Hebrew)
25) “Le rôle de La Statue de sel dans l’historiographie sur les Juifs des pays musulmans”, in in D. Mendelson, (éd.), La Culture francophone en Israël, L’Harmattan, Paris 2002, pp. 119-132.
26) “Réformistes musulmans et juifs en Tunisie à la veille de l’occupation française”, in S. Fellouse (ed.), Juifs et Musulmans en Tunisie: Fraternité et dechirement, Somoji Editions d’Art, Paris, 2003, pp. 161-168, 454-456.
27) “The Israeli Historiography and the Ethnic Problem”, Peamim 94 (2003), pp. 1-47 (Hebrew). [English version: Tsur, yaron, “The Israeli Historiography and the Ethnic Problem”, in Benny Morris (ed.), Making Israel, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2007, pp. 231-277
28) “The North African Communities in the Jewish Diaspora after the Holocaust”, in Dan Mechman (ed.), The Holocaust in Jewish History: Historiography, Historical Consciousness and Interpretations, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2005, pp. 275-291. (Hebrew) [French version: "Les communatés d'Afriques du Nord dans la diaspora juive après la Shoah", in: Françoise S. Ouzan and Dan Michman (éds.), De la mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif, CNRS, Paris, 2008 pp. 315-333.]
29) "Basic Problems of Haskalah in MuslimLand:Tunusia as a Test-Case", in Feiner, Shmuel and IsraelBartal (eds.), Varieties of Haskala, Jerusalem 2005, pp. 201-222. (Hebrew)
30) "La culture religieuse à Tunis à la fin du XVIIIème siècle d’après le récit de voyage
de Haïm Yossef David Azoulay (HYDA)", in: Denis Cohen-Tannoudji (éd.), Juifs et Musulmans en Tunisie entre Orient et Occident: Histoires et historiographies revisitées (XVIIIème et XIXème siècles), L'Eclat, 2006, pp. 47-60.
31) "On the Importance of Unseen Institutions: the Jewish Notables of Istanbul and the Intisab" in Michael Winter and Miri Shefer, eds., Turkey: The Ottoman Past and the Republican Present, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 2007: 121-138. (Hebrew)
32) "The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Sectorial Analysis of the North African Jewish Leadership in the Early Years of Israeli Statehood", Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. XXII (2007), pp. 66-99.
33) "Entre Tunis et Alger- Les élites juives vers 1800", De Tunis à Paris: Mélange à la mémoire de Paul Sebag, Editions de l'Eclat, Paris 2008, pp. 8-17.
34. Y. Tsur, "Dating the Demise of the Western Sephardi Jewish Diaspora in the Mediterranean", in: Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter (ed.), Jewish “Culture and Society in North Africa, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2011, pp. 93-104.
35. Y. Tsur, “Modern Identities of Jews in Muslim Lands: The Arab-Jewish Option”, Peemim, 125 – 127 )Autumn 2010 – Spring 2011), pp. 45-56. (In Hebrew)
36. Y. Tsur, "Moroccan Jewry and Decolonization: A Modern History of Collective Social Boundaries", Borders and Boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish History, Edited by Judith Frishman, David J. Wertheim, Ido de Haan and Joel Cahen, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2011, pp. 193-200.
37. Y. Tsur, “’A Totality of Vanities’: Romanelli and the Jewish Wedding in Morocco”, in: Yosef Tobi and Dennis Kurzon (eds.), Hikrei Ma’arav U-Mizrah: Studies in Language, Literature and History presented to Joseph Chetrit, Haifa 2011, pp.657-682. (In Hebrew)
38. Y. Tsur, “Three Lectures about the Israeli Historiography on the Jews of North Africa”, in David Assaf and others (eds.), Milestones: Essays in Jewish History Dedicated to Zvi (Kuti) Yekutiel, Jerusalem 2015, pp. 447-460. (In Hebrew)
Ph.D. (unpublished)
France and the Jews of Tunisia: the Policy of the French Authorities towards the Jews and the Activities of the Jewish Elites during the Period of Transition from Moslem Independent State to Colonial Rule, 1873-1888, Ph.D. Thesis, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1988 (in Hebrew).