Lecture: Negotiating French, Maghreb-French and Jewish Identities Through Literature
Hall
Speakers): Maurice Samuels, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Cohen-Tannoudji
This series of talks seeks to enhance a new dialogue between different plural voices writing about multiple Jewish identities originating from France and the Maghreb. Special focus on conflicting and co-existing identities and the ways in which they are presented in literature and history. The goal of the project is to look beyond the much discussed hybrid identity of widely translated writers and scholars, and present a more inclusive, rich, and complex perspective on the unique interplay between Jewish, French and/or Maghreb identities.
Wednesday, March 21, 4
pm
“Fictions of Jewish Identity
in Nineteenth-Century France”
Maurice Samuels
(Yale University)
“Do Moroccans Share
Nostalgia of the Jews from Morocco for a Mystical Past? Sharing and
Unsharing Narratives about Jews-Muslims Relationships in
Morocco”
Emanuela Trevisan Semi (Ca'
Foscari University in Venice)
èצӰ Humanities
Center, Levinthal Hall
Thursday,
May 3, 4 pm
“The Cohen-Tanoudji
Family, A Historical Itinerary Through North African Jewry
Denis Cohen-Tannoudji (Société d'Histoire des Juifs de
Tunisie)
èצӰ Humanities Center, Levinthal
Hall
Sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Mediterranean Studies Forum; the Comparative Literature Department; The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, the Department of French and Italian; The èצӰ Humanities Center; The Taube Center for Jewish Studies