A Sephardi Life In Southeastern Europe Esther Benbassa Aron Rodrigue by Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigue 9780295998565, 0295998563 instant download after payment.

Preface to the English Edition
This is a slightly revised version, in translation, of a book that appeared
in Paris in 1992 under the title Un vie judéo-espagnole à l’Est: Gabriel Arié
(1863–1939). It contains the autobiography, journal, and selections from
the correspondence of Gabriel Arié. Arié was born in Bulgaria in the last
years of Ottoman rule, was educated by and became a teacher and major
actor in the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the foremost Jewish organization
of the time, and created and directed important Jewish schools and
institutions in Ottoman Turkey. Upon his return to Bulgaria after ending
his teaching career because of tuberculosis, Arié went on to become a
successful businessman and an important notable and participant in Jewish
politics. He also wrote most of the two volumes of the official history of
the Alliance, Cinquante ans d’histoire, which appeared in print under the
authorship of the organization’s president, Narcisse Leven, and which was
until recently the definitive history of the diplomatic and educational work
of the institution. He also published a history of the Jews, Histoire juive
depuis les origines jusqu’à nos jours (1923), which was adopted as a textbook
for Jewish schools in France until World War II.
The public work and activities of this Sephardi figure became familiar
to us as we conducted research in the archives of the Alliance for a variety
of projects over the years. It was by chance that Aron Rodrigue’s De
l’instruction à l’émancipation caught the eye of Gabriel Arié’s grandson Dr.
Elie Arié of Paris, who contacted him to reveal that he was in possession of
his grandfather’s autobiographical manuscripts. Writings of this kind are
quite rare in the Judeo-Spanish world, and this provided us with a unique
opportunity to publish and to analyze both the public and the private lives
of one of its important personalities. Together with selections from his
letters to the Alliance Central Committee about a variety of political and
educational
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