Communal Organization of the Jews of Tripolitania
Scholarly Article · Jewish Political Studies Review
Communal Organization of the Jews of Tripolitania during the Late Ottoman Period
Anthropologist Harvey E. Goldberg traces how the Jewish community of Tripoli governed itself through taxation, communal ordinances, and rabbinic courts, and how Ottoman reforms in the nineteenth century brought new religious and educational leadership while ties to Djerba and the Land of Israel continued to shape community life.
By Harvey E. Goldberg, Jewish Political Studies Review 5, nos. 3 and 4 (Fall 1993). Opens in a new tab.
