Beit Avi Chai presents "Jews of the Maghreb": A fresh perspective on North African Jewry.
This series of lectures traces the history of the Jews of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco over the past century. How had Jewish culture developed in the region? How were the Mugrabi Jews influenced by European colonialism? How did Zionism and immigration to Israel affect them? How did they remake their lives in the Israeli milieu? Including film clips.
Host: Dr. Avi Picard, Department of Land of Israel Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Session 1: A Yekke, a Romanian, and a Moroccan Ride Together in a Train
International relations, colonialism, and the birth of the ethnic demon with the spread of modern culture in Central and Western Europe
Guest: Prof. Yaron Tsur, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, February 21, 8:30 PM
Session 2: Eastward Ho!
The European Zionists and North African Jewry-occupiers and occupied or one people?
Host: MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, chairman of the Am Shalem Movement
Tuesday, February 28, 8:30 PM
Session 3: The Melting Pot
Immigrants from North Africa made up half of the immigrants to the young Israeli state, which did everything to absorb them, while rejecting their culture. | Host: Musician and author, Koby Oz
Tuesday, March 6, 20:30
Session 4: Burning Down the Club
On First Israel and Second Israel and the wide abyss between them; from Wadi Salib to the Black Panthers
Guest: Reuven Abergel, educator and social leader
Tuesday, March 13, 20:30
Session 5: Identity instead of Equality
Israel in the postmodern era has done away with the cultural hierarchy of East and West. Has the lost luster of the East been restored? | Guest: Ron Chachlili, documentary director and editor
Tuesday, March 20, 20:30
This is a Hebrew-language only event.
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