Rethinking Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa

“Rethinking Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa”
American Institute For Maghrib Studies-2004 Conference
June 22-25, 2004
American Legation, Tangier
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies—University of
California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Irvine
Tuesday, June 22
2:00-3:00
Registration
3:00-3:30
Welcome Remarks: Daniel Schroeter and Emily Gottreich
3:30-5:00
Panel I: Origins and Identity
Chair: Simon Lévy, Director, Musée du Judaïsme Marocain, Fondation du
Patrimoine Culturel Judéo-Marocain (Morocco)
1. Inscribing the Dead to Describe the Living: Reading Jewish Identity
through Funerary Epitaphs from Late Antique North Africa,
2nd-6th centuries, C.E.
Karen Stern, Brown University (USA)
2. La toponymie de l’ouest algérien : fonds biblique et domaines sémantiques
dominants
Farid Benramdane, Université de Mostaganem (Algeria)
3. Looking for Jews in the Maghreb of the First Muslim Century
Fred Astren, San Francisco State University (USA)
7:00
Introductions: Daniel Schroeter
1. Keynote Address: André Azoulay, Counselor to His Majesty the King
of Morocco
2. Reflections: Edmond Amran El Maleh, writer (Morocco).
7 :30
Cocktail Dinatoîre.
Wednesday, June 23
9:15-11:00
Panel II: Rewriting North African Jewish Culture
Chair: Ruth Knafo Setton, Lehigh University (USA)
1. Confronting History: Edmond Amran El Maleh’s ‘Mille ans un jour’
Irene Siegel, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
2. La place de Tunis dans l’oeuvre d’Albert Memmi: vers une mediation
judéo-musulmane
Philippe Barbé, University of California, Irvine (USA)
3. Ecrire en tant que juif tunisien: ‘Cristal’ de Gilbert Naccache
Debbie Barnard, Johnson C. Smith University (USA)
4. Traverses: Trajectoires d’artistes et hommes de culture juifs d’Algérie
depuis la fin du 19ème siècle
Hadj Miliani, Université de Mostaganem (Algeria)
11:00-11:30
Coffee
11:30-1:00
Panel III: Berbers and Jews
Chair: Abderrahman Lakhsassi, Université Mohammed V (Morocco)
1. La figure des juifs de la region du Sous à travers leur rapport à la
terre
Abdellah Larhmaid, Université Mohammed V (Morocco)
2. Self Image Created by Others: Imazighen Jews in Ibadhi Contexts:
The Examples of Jabal Nefusa (Libya), Jerba (Tunisia) and Wargilan
(Algeria) in the Middle Ages
Mabrouk Monsouri, University of Sousse (Tunisia)
3. European Travel Narratives and Moroccan Jews Reconsidered:
Historical Facts, Personal Biases, and/or Colonial Ideologies?
Aomar Boum, University of Arizona (USA)
1:00-2:45
Lunch: Intercontinental Hotel
2:45-4:15
Panel IV: Between Myth and History: Suleika
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Chair: Hadj Miliani, Université de Mostaganem (Algeria)
1. La figure de Sol Hachuel dans le conte populaire et la mémoire
collective des juifs marocains
Yaelle Azagury, Barnard College (USA)
2. Sol Hatchuel, “Heroine of the 19th Century:” Gender, the Jewish
Question, and Colonial Discourse
Sharon Vance, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
3. Searching for Suleika
Ruth Knafo Setton, Lehigh University (USA)
4:30-6:00
Panel V: Educating North African Jews
Chair: Jamâa Baïda, Université Mohammed V (Morocco)
1. “Les Temps Héroïques”: The Alliance Israélite Universelle in
Marrakech on the Eve of the Protectorate
Jonathan Katz, Oregon State University (USA)
2. Jewish Education for Girls in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries and the Spread of French in Tunisia
Keith Walters, University of Texas (USA)
3. Corresponding Lives: Women Educators of the Alliance Israelite
Universelle (AIU) in Tunisia, 1882-1914
Joy Land, University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
6:00-6:30
Reception
6:30
Exhibit and Presentation: Jews among Berbers
Sarah Levin, U.C. Berkeley, curator
Thursday, June 24
9:15-11:00
Panel VI: Microhistories
Chair: Emily Gottreich, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
1. Changing Patterns of Jewish Habitation in Tangier, 1800-1960
Susan Gilson Miller, Harvard University (USA)
2. Un moment de l’histoire séfarade: la reconstitution de la communauté
juive d’Oran (1792-1831)
Sadek Benkada, CRASC, Oran (Algeria)
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3. Intrigue and Butchery in Colonial Algeria: Rabbi Abraham Ankaoua
and the Jewish Community of Mascara, 1876-79
Nathan Godley, University of Iowa (USA)
4. Muslim and Jewish Interaction in Moroccan Meat Markets, 1873-1912
Stacey Holden, Boston University (USA)
11:00-11:30
Coffee
11:30-1:15
Panel VII: Macrohistories
Chair: Dalenda Larguèche, Université de Manouba (Tunisia)
1. Quand vient la fin de la diaspora séfarade occidentale : regard à
partir de la Méditerranée
Yaron Tsur, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
2. Britain and the Moroccan Jews in the Nineteenth Century
Khalid Ben Srhir, Université Mohammedia (Morocco)
3. The Resilience of Hybridity: Syncretism, Symbiosis and Patrimony in
the Moroccan Nation
Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark College (USA)
1:30-3:00
Lunch: Intercontinental Hotel
3:00-4:45
Panel VIII: The Mid-Twentieth Century
Chair: Susan Miller, Harvard University (USA)
1. L’émigration des juifs marocains (1948-1956)
Jamâa Baïda, Université Mohammed V (Morocco)
2. The 1948 Conflict Between Le Petit Matin and En-Nahda about the
Caïdal Reform in Tunisia
Mohsen Hamli, Université de Manouba (Tunisia)
3. Les relations judéo-musulmanes en Tunisie dans la conjoncture de la
seconde guerre nondiale: entre propagandes, stéreotypes et attitudes,
1939-1943
Fayçal Cherif, Université de Manouba (Tunisia)
4. Zouzef tayayou (Joseph le tailleur) de Nédroma
Belkacem Mebarki, Université d’Oran Es-Sénia (Algeria)
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5:00-7:00
Panel IX: Contemporary History and Memory
Chair: Daniel Schroeter, University of California, Irvine (USA)
1. La Place des recherches sur les juifs de Tunisie dans l’historiographie
Tunisienne
Habib Kazdaghli, Université de Manouba (Tunisia), presented by
Dalenda Larguèche, Université de Manouba (Tunisia)
2. Cohen, the Jewish Peddler, Revisited: A Perspective on JewishMuslim Relationships in Contemporary Morocco
André Levy, Ben Gurion University (Israel)
3. La culture des juifs de Tunisie entre mémoire et patrimoine
Abdelhamid Larguèche, Université de Manouba (Tunisia)
4. Les relations judéo-musulmanes au Maroc a l’époque contemporaine.
Nouvelles directions de recherches?
Mohammed Kenbib, Université Mohammed V (Morocco)
Closing Remarks
Friday, June 25
9:00-4:00
Excursion to Tetuan, including lunch
4:00
Conference Adjourns
For further information please contact:
Prof. Daniel J. Schroeter
Department of History
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3275
tel: (949) 824-3841
fax: (949) 824-2865
e-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Emily Gottreich
Vice Chair
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of California
340 Stephens Hall, #2314
Berkeley, CA 94720-2314
tel: (510) 642-8208
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fax: (510) 643-3001
e-mail: [email protected]
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