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, 2 nd -6 th 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 2
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 19 th 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) 6:00-6:30 Reception 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) 6:30 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) 3
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) 4
5:00-7:00 Panel IX: Contemporary History and Memory Chair: Daniel Schroeter, University of California, Irvine (USA) Closing Remarks Friday, June 25 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 Jewish- Muslim 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) 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: djschroe@uci.edu 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 5
fax: (510) 643-3001 e-mail: emilyrg@uclink.berkeley.edu 6