ABSTRACT
This article examines “otherness” and homeland in the case of Djerban Tunisian Jewry in the modern Middle East. The author asks whether notions of home shifted for Djerban Jews after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. To this end, commercial and religious co-existence and psychological boundaries between Djerban Jews and Muslims over the course of the twentieth century are examined. The process is a descriptive, ethnographic study of one Jewish community and its evolution; the result is a grappling with the question of home and how it may be understood by the community over time.
