The Field of In Between

Contenu

Titre

The Field of In Between

Créateur

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2014

Dans

International Journal of Middle East Studies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

In the spring of 1902, Miryam bint Lalu Partush appealed to military representatives in Ghardaïa, in the Mzab Valley (a valley of five fortified oasis cities in the northern Algerian Sahara, six hundred kilometers south of Algiers), for the paperwork that would allow her to undertake a six-month pilgrimage to Jerusalem with her husband, the wealthy merchant Musa (Moshe) bin Ibrahim Partush. Miryam Partush was unusual in possessing the means for such a rare, costly voyage; but notwithstanding her class, Partush's legal status was typical of most Muslims and southern Algerian Jews in Algeria. She was not a citizen, nor did she hold official papers of any kind. When Miryam Partush appealed to the military authorities in Ghardaïa, then, she was appealing for many things: for the right to leave her native valley and travel to the port of Algiers; for the papers that would allow her to cross colonial boundaries; and for the documentation that would register her liminal legal identity. Authorizing her travel, Algeria's governor-general named Partush a “non-naturalized Jew from the Mzab.” Thus did Partush embark on her six-month journey with a negative legal identity: this Jewish woman was definable, in the eyes of the law, only by what she did not possess.

Sujet

Judaïsme Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Langue

eng

volume

46

numéro

3

pages

581-584

Titre abrégé

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

doi

10.1017/S0020743814000610

issn

0020-7438, 1471-6380

uri

https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0020743814000610/type/journal_article

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya, “The Field of In Between”, 2014, bibliographie, consulté le 19 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/1530