The step-sister of Yiddish culture: Judeo-Arabic literature in Tunisia

 

Prof. Yosef Toby, professor emeritus of Medieval Hebrew poetry at the University of Haifa, has just had his book, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia 1850-1950, published in English by Wayne State University Press.

Prof. Toby talks to host Gilad Halpern about the cultural golden age of Tunisian Jews, and their being torn between European acculturation and cultural conservatism.

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