Educational Oases in the Desert: The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915

by Jonathan Sciarcon

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Isra lite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational institutions for local Jewish children. In addition to providing secular education, the schools attempted to change local customs and "regenerate" or "uplift" communities. Educational Oases in the Desert explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438465858
• ISBN13: 9781438465852
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"