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Jews and Muslims: The Long View with Dr. Emily Gottreich
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Emily Gottreich is an expert in Moroccan Jewish history and Muslim-Jewish relations in the Arab-Islamic world more broadly. She is the author of The Mellah of Marrakech: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City, published in French translation by the University of Mohammed V Press in Rabat in 2016, and co-editor with Daniel Schroeter of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (Indiana University Press: 2011). Her most recent book is Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present. She currently serves as Adjunct Professor in Global Studies and the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where from 2014-2020 she also served as the Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Prof. Gottreich received her BA in Middle Eastern Studies from UC Berkeley, and her MA and PhD in Middle Eastern Studies and History from Harvard University. She is a three-time Fulbright awardee, a past president of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and a winner of the Phi Beta Kappa award for Excellence in Teaching.
This conversation is suitable for all ages.
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
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This lecture is about a tough situation clarified. A lecture delivered with elegance and simplicity with a real appeal to modernity. Someone who has done her legwork as well as all the sweat of being a scholar. I only hope that it will be followed up by many more by this professor.
The course was well-designed and consistently interesting. Dr. Gottreich is very knowledgeable and responsive to questions. I recommend this one and look forward to taking her class on the Jews of Morocco.
I enjoyed this presentation very much. Dr. Gottreich really challenged some of the things that I have understood over the years from some of my friends who grew up in Israel. I especially liked the two videos she shows at the beginning as they are particularly good at pointing out how similar these two groups are. The session is very thorough and provocative and interesting. I would highly recommend it.
This is a lifetime discussion, but within the hour of presentation we covered history and geography and language, nuance, and so much more…