Visualizing Scholarship on the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in the Next Decade
Panelists: Aomar Boum, Emily Gottreich, Alma Heckman, Oren Kosansky, Matthias Lehmann, Lital Levy, Jessica Marglin, Susan Miller, Chris Silver, and Sarah Stein.
December 3, 2021 (Zoom):
Rachel Smith (UCLA), “Superstition and the Haunting of Sephardic Modernity.”
Brendan Goldman (University of Washington), “‘A People Plundered and Despoiled’ (Isaiah 42:22): Mass Incarceration, Minorities and Carceral State Logic in Medieval Egypt.”
March 5, 2021 (Zoom):
Daniella Farah (UCLA), “Forming Iranian Jewish Identities: Education, National Belonging, the Jewish Press, and Integration, 1945-1981.”
Max Modiano Daniel (UCLA), “A Sephardic Century: Relational Formation of a Los Angeles Community, 1893-1992.”
November 13, 2020 (Zoom):
Roundtable discussion on pedagogy: teaching Jews in the Middle East and North Africa
March 31, 2019 (USC):
Liran Yadgar (UCLA), “The Hebrew Bible in the Writings of Ibn Taymiyya.”
Robin Buller (UC Berkeley), “Sephardi Immigrants in Paris: Navigating Community, Culture, and Citizenship in Interwar and Wartime France.”
Ethan Pack (UCLA), Routes of Displacement: The Representation of Exile Between Germany, Turkey, Israel and Palestine, selected chapters.
October 28, 2018 (UC Berkeley):
Jacob Daniels (Stanford), “Prospects from the Edge of Empire: The Jews of Ottoman Edirne before the Balkan Wars”
Shira Klein (Chapman University), “Italian Jewish Encounters with the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia”
Susan Gilson Miller (UC Davis), The Undesirables: Nelly Benatar and the Refugee Crisis in Morocco During World War II
March 25, 2018 (USC):
Mostafa Hussein (USC Society of Fellows), Islam and the Construction of a Jewish Culture in the Holy Land
Marie-Pierre Ulloa (Stanford),“California Dreaming: North African Jews, out of North Africa, out of France”
October 27, 2017 (UC Berkeley):
Sarah Levin (UC Berkeley), “Narrative Remembrance: Close Encounters Between Muslims and Jews in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains”
Francesco Spangolo (UC Berkeley, Curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life), tour of the exhibition “The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco”
November 4, 2016 (UC Berkeley):
Lia Brozgal (UCLA), “An Arab Massacre, a Jewish Story: October 17, 1961”.
Chris Silver (UCLA), “‘Where were you, mademoiselle? Every day I ask about you’: Popular music, mixed company, and its discontents in the interwar Maghrib”
Emily Gottreich (UC Berkeley), “Jewish Morocco: From Pre-Islamic to Post-Colonial Times”
April 1, 2016 (USC):
Reuven Firestone (HUC), “The ‘Other’ Ishmael in Islamic Sripture and Tradition”
Aomar Boum (UCLA), “The Righteous Sultan: Mohammed V in Post-Colonial Holocaust Geographies”
November 13, 2015 (USC):
Alma Heckman (UC Santa Cruz), “‘I was hoping to leave it with less brutality’: Vichy and the Politicization of Moroccan Jewry.”
Susan Slyomovics (UCLA), “Abraham Serfaty: Moroccan Jew and Conscious Pariah.”
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