The Jews of Libya Between the 19th Century and the Colonial Era

Seminar
Italian Jewish Studies Project
The Jews of Libya Between the 19th Century and the Colonial Era
In collaboration with the Primo Levi Center

David Meghnagi (University of Rome 3)
Mordechai HaCohen: Rabbi and Ethnographer
Mordechai Hakohen (1856-1929) was a Libyan Talmudic scholar and auto-didact anthropologist who composed an ethnographic study of North African Jewry in the early 20th century. Abstract will be posted soon

Barbara Spadaro (University of Bristol)
From "Mapping Living Memories" to Investigating Postcolonial Histories. Narratives of the Jews from Libya in Historical Perspective.
Woven into the colonial past which binds Italy and Libya, the histories and memories of the Jews from Libya provide a crucial perspective on the transnational framework where Italian ideas of race, difference and citizenship have been elaborated and transformed over the 19th and 20th centuries.

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
New York University
April 25, 2014

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