New Directions: Sephardi-Mizrahi Migrations in Global Contexts
Part I: Bar-Ilan University
יום שני | 16 בדצמבר | Monday | December 16 | 18:00-21:00
Between Aliyah and Migration: Israeli perspectives
A public event in Hebrew (with simultaneous translation into English)
בין עלייה להגירה: פרספקטיבות ישראליות
אירוע פתוח לציבור
יו”ר, פרופ’ לריסה רמניק, ראשת המחלקה לסוציולוגיה ולאנתרופולוגיה, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן
17:30 | קבלת פנים והרשמה – לובי בניין הנאנו-טכנולוגיה ) #206 (
18:00 | ברכות:
פרופ’ גיל אפשטיין, דיקן הפקולטה למדעי החברה, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן
פרופ’ פולה קבלו, מנהלת מכון בן-גוריון לחקר ישראל והציונות, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב
פרופ’ ירון צור, מנהל אתר “עיתונות יהודית היסטורית”, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
5 18:1 | פרופ’ אסתר מאיר-גליצנשטיין, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב
מבט כללי על המחקר הישראלי בתחום עליית יהודי ארצות האסלאם: לאן מכאן?
0 18:3 | חוקרים ומהגרים: מבט אקדמי ואישי
פרופ’ משה בר אשר, חתן פרס ישראל בלשונות היהודים
וד”ר דוד הררי, חתן פרס ישראל להנדסה
משוחחים עם פרופ’ ירון הראל ופרופ’ נסים ליאון, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן
19:30 | הפסקת קפה
5 19:4 | “הצרפוקאים” – קטעים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה ושיחה עם הבמאי רון כחלילי
Day 1 | Tuesday | December 17 | Bar-Ilan University
Feldman Senate Building (#301) – Weissfeld Conference Room
9:00 | Registration and light breakfast
9:30 | Opening session, Chair: Nissim Leon, Bar-Ilan University
Greetings: Yaron Harel, Dean, Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Opening Remarks: Larisa Remennick, Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology,
Bar-Ilan University. Jewish People on the Move: Between East and West
10:15 | France as a Jewish Hub | Chair: Ilan Greilsammer, Bar-Ilan University
Echoes from the Salonikan Diaspora in France, 1920s-1930s:
Transnationalism, Networks, Businesses
Orly C. Meron, Bar-Ilan University
The Post-War Resettlement in France of the Jews of Algeria:
Causes and Consequences
Shmuel Trigano, Université Paris Nanterre
From Morocco to the French Alps:
Enrolment of Jewish Youth in the Aix Les Bains Yeshiva in the Second Half
of the 20th Century
Itzhak Dahan, Bar-Ilan University
11:45 | Coffee break
12:00 | Gender Aspects I | Chair: Orna Sasson-Levy, Bar-Ilan University
From Damascus to Buenos Aires: Dreams and Reality of a Difficult Emigration
and The Challenging Adaptation to a New Country
Sophia Menashe, University of Haifa
Gender, Sexuality and Collective Boundaries in a Syrian Sephardic Community:
New York as a Case Study
Mijal Bitton, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, New York
13:00 | Break and buffet lunch
14:00 | Historical Trans-Regional Contacts | Chair: Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli,
Bar-Ilan University
Between Haskalah and Migration: The Case of Ottoman Jewry
Tamir Karkason, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Global Jewish Philanthropy: Partners in Solidarity 1918-1948
Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah, Leiden University
15:00 | Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives from the Americas | Chair: Raanan Rein,
Tel Aviv University
Between Entrepreneurship and Mass Consumption:
Syrian Jews during the “Happy Years” the Peronist Economy, 1946-1955
Silvina Schammah Gesser, Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University,
and Susana Brauner, UNTREF and UADE
Welding Religion into Sephardic Jewry: The Teshuva Movement in Latin America
Batia Siebzehner, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Part II: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Sede Boqer Campus
The conference will be held at the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute,
Midreshet Ben-Gurion
12:00 | Greetings and Introduction
Greetings: Tal Ohana, Mayor of Yeroham
Ofer Shiff, Head of World Jewry: Views from Israel Research Hub, CIS
Introduction: Aviad Moreno, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israel and the Sephardi/Mizrahi Diaspora: New Directions
12:45 | KEYNOTE
Chair: Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv University
Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota
Refugees from Arab Muslim Countries after 1948? Towards an Understanding of Forced
Migration of Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews in Modern History
13:30 | Buffet Lunch
14:15 | Memory and Fragmented Homelands. Chair: Aomar Boum, UCLA
How do Turkish Muslims Remember Jews Today? From Physical Sites to Virtual
Louis Fishman, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Jewish Migrations to Italy: Between Ruptures and Re-compositions
Liliana Piccioto, Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea-Center for Jewish
Contemporary Documentation, Milan
The Jews of Egypt: Preserving Cultural Heritage in situ, Keeping the Memory of Loss Alive
Michèle Baussant, CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre and Institut Convergences Migrations
“‘We Were all Italian!’ The Construction of a ‘Sense of Italianness’ among Jews from
Libya between the 1940s and 1960s”
Piera Rossetto, University of Graz
16:00 | Coffee Break
16:15 | Literary Diasporas (a session in honour of Dr. Nina Pinto Abecasis z”l);
Chair: David Guedj, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Other Shore: An Italian Literary History of the Sephardi Mediterranean
Dario Miccoli, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
The Ambiguity of Food Patterns in the Literature of Jews from Morocco
Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
17:15 | Coffee break
17:30 | North African Jewish Migration and Diaspora-Making I | Chair: Adriana Brodsky,
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
The Diversity of Canadian-Moroccan Migration
Yolande Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal
Jewish Cultural Heritage Between France and Tunisia:
Stakes and Future of a Jewish Museum in Tunis
Giorgia Foscarini, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Polish and North African Jews in Interwar Paris
Magdalena Kozłowska, University of Warsaw
19:00 | Dinner Event
“Mevashlot”
Chair: Aryeh Tepper, CIS Reaserch Fellow
Day 3 | Thursday | December 19
7:30 | Breakfast (Dining Hall, at the high school)
8:40 | Shuttle to Conference from Dorms and Field School
9:00 | Gender II
Chair: Pnina Motzafi-Haller, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Generous Giving: Women and Philanthropy in the Syrian-Jewish Community of
Mexico City
Paulette Kershenovich Schuster, AMILAT, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gender, Cultural Capital and Social Networks: Migration of Moroccan Jewish Widows
Michal Ben Ya’akov, Efrata College for Education
10:00 | Coffee Break
10:15 | North African Jewish Migration and Diaspora-Making II
Chair: Andre Levy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“Selquea”: An Ethnographic Study of Religious Attitudes of the Spanish-Moroccan
Community of Buenos Aires (1929-2012)
Angy Cohen, Concordia University
From Casablanca to Houston: A Family Story
Julie Fette, Rice University
From Morocco to Argentina; from Argentina to Israel? Home(s) and the Life
Trajectories of Young Sephardim: 1960s-1970s
Adriana M. Brodsky, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Between Morocco and the Diasporic Centers: The Rise of a Global Moroccan Judaism
Aomar Boum, UCLA
12:00 | Coffee and Snacks
12:15 | Return to Spain | Chair: Aimée Israel-Pelletier, University of Texas
Spectacles of Citizenship:
Sephardi Political Belonging and the Inscribing of Civil Loyalties
Allyson Gonzalez, Yale University
From Proscription to Official recognition:
The Long Way Towards the Establishment of Jewish Communities in Spain
Nitai Shinan, National Library of Israel
Between Protection and Cultural Proselytism towards Sephardi Jewish Communities
in Morocco
Ricardo Muñoz Solla, Salamanca University
Ben Krimo: A Moroccan Jewish Emigre among Republican Fighters during the Spanish
Civil War
Asher Salah, Bezalel Academy
14:15 | Lunch
15:30 | Iraq and Yemen: Perspectives from/on the East
Chair: Avi Bareli, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Migration as a Continuing Phenomenon in the History of Iraqi Jews
Esther Meir Glitzenstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yemenite Jews in the Red Sea region: A New Diaspora between Ethiopia, Egypt,
Palestine and Yemen
Menashe Anzi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
An Indian-Ocean Diaspora? Regional Migration of Mesopotamian and Yemeni Jews
Shaul Marmari, Dubnow Institut, Leipzig
Refreshments and Parting Remarks
Shuttles back to Be’er Sheva, Kfar Maccabiah and Tel Aviv
Academic Committee:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Aviad Moreno
Jpress
Yaron Tsur
Bar-Ilan University
Larissa Remennick
Nissim Leon
Itzhak Dahan
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/bgi/Documents/new-direction13s-dec2019.pdf