Yair Wallach, recipient of the 2022 David and Ruth Musher/JDC Archives Fellowship, lectured on “Rethinking Ashkenazi History in the Modern Middle East: Early 20th Century Egypt and Palestine.” In this lecture, Yair Wallach discussed the ways in which Ashkenazim...
Robin Buller, recipient of the 2022 Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, lectured on “Ottoman Echoes: Remnants of the Empire among Sephardi Immigrants to France, 1919-1945.” In this lecture, Robin Buller discussed how in the first decades of the...
Michael Rom, recipient of the 2022 Nathan and Sarah Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, presented “From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61,” on March 29, 2023. In this lecture, Michael Rom discussed how following the 1956 Suez War...
Ethell Gershengorin, recipient of the 2022 Max and Cecil (Steuer) Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture on Aiding Their “Unfortunate Brethren”: The JDC’s Activities on Behalf of Eastern European Jewish Children, 1919-1929. In this lecture, Ethell...
For twenty-two years after the Allied liberation of North Africa from Nazi occupation, Tunisian Jewish political and religious authorities sought to secure a place for the Jews in Tunisian national and civic life. Contrary to the experience of other Middle Eastern and...
After decades of state repression, the relatively liberal political and social climate of the late 1980s emboldened Jews across the Soviet Union to imagine a transition from illegal to legal forms of Jewish expression and activity, from underground to above-ground...