Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa

Emily Benichou Gottreich is Vice Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California Berkeley. She is author of The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City (IUP, 2006). Daniel J. Schroeter is the Amos S. Denard Memorial Chair in Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is author of The Sultan's Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World and Merchants of Essaouira.

"[This] volume as a whole demonstrates the ways in which both Jewish studies and Maghrib studies are emerging from their historic marginalization and into broader discussions of regional history.March 2013"—Journal of African History"[T]his collection goes a long way to increasing our understanding of North African Jewish history and encourages new lines of inquiry into the subject."—Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online"[This] is a highly informative and thought-provoking collection of essays, from which the reader is certain to derive satisfaction and knowledge of a region made all the more significant in light of the revolutionary changes that have taken place in North Africa since the spring of 2011."—AJL Reviews"Opening new avenues for research on the Jews of the Maghrib, this volume is an important contribution to both Jewish studies and Maghrib studies. . . . [It] raises a whole range of questions about how we might rethink modern Jewish history."—Matthias Lehmann, author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture

• Part I: Introduction1. Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter, Rethinking Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa2. Mohammed Kenbib, Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary MoroccoPart II: Origins, Diasporas, and Identities3. Farid Benramdane, Place Names in Western Algeria: Biblical Sources and Dominant Semantic Domains 4. Mabrouk Mansouri, The Image of the Jews among Ibadi Imazighen in North Africa until the Tenth Century5. Abdellah Larhmaid, Jewish Identity and Landownership in the Sous Region of Morocco6. Aomar Boum, Southern Moroccan Jewry between the Colonial Manufacture of Knowledge and the Postcolonial Historiographical Silence7. Yaron Tsur, Dating the Demise of the Western-Sephardi Jewish Diaspora: The Mediterranean AspectPart III: Communities, Cultural Exchange and Transformations8. Philippe Barbé, Jewish-Muslim Syncretism and Intercommunity Cohabitation in the work of Albert Memmi: The Partage of Tunis 9. Susan Gilson Miller, Making Tangier Modern: Ethnicity and Urban Development, 1880-193010. Stacy E. Holden, Muslim and Jewish Interaction in Moroccan Meat Markets, 1873-191211. Saddek Benkada, A Moment in Sephardi History: The Re-establishment of the Jewish Community of Oran, 1792-1831 12. Hadj Miliani, Crosscurrents: Trajectories of Algerian Jewish Artists and Men of Culture since the End of the Nineteenth CenturyPart IV: Between Myth and History: Sol Hachuel in Moroccan Jewish Memory13. Yaelle Azagury, Sol Hachuel in the Collective Memory and Folktales of Moroccan Jews14. Sharon Vance, Sol Hachuel, 'Heroine of the Nineteenth Century': Gender, the Jewish Question, and Colonial Discourse15. Ruth Knafo Setton, Searching for Suleika: A Writer's JourneyPart V: Gender, Colonialism, and the Alliance Israélite Universelle16. Joy A. Land, Corresponding Lives: Women Educators of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Tunisia, 1882-191417. Keith Walters, Education for Jewish Girls in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Tunis and the Spread of French in Tunisia18. Jonathan G. Katz, 'Les Temps Héroïques': The Alliance Israélite Universelle in Marrakech on the Eve of the French ProtectoratePart VI: North African Jews and Political Change in the Late Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods19. Fayçal Cherif, Jewish-Muslim Relations in Tunisia during World War II: Propaganda, Stereotypes, and Attitudes, 1939-1943 20. Jamaâ Baïda, The Emigration of Moroccan Jews, 1948-195621. Belkacem Mebarki, Zouzef Tayayou (Joseph the Tailor): A Jew from Nedroma, and the Others 22. Oren Kosansky, The Real Morocco Itself: Jewish Saint Pilgrimage and the Idea of the Moroccan Nation