A History Of The Jews In North Africa From Antiquity To The Sixteenth Century

This book presents the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb and the diaspora to North Africa.

This book presents the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb and the diaspora to North Africa.

A history of Jews in Africa, with a focus on the 16th and 17th centuries, necessarily limited to the northern portion of the continent: Abyssinia & Ethiopia, Egypt, Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco.

Daniel J. Schroeter is the Amos S. Denard Memorial Chair in Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is author of The Sultan's Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World and Merchants of Essaouira. --Book Jacket.