Daniel Mahla, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
June 21, 2022
19:00 Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Michael Brenner (LMU München)
Norman Stillman (Jerusalem/University of Oklahoma): Prelude to Exodus: The Transformation of the Jews of the Islamic World in Modern Times
20:30 Reception
June 22, 2022
09:00 Panel I: Jewish-Muslim Relations inithin the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chair: Philipp Lenhard (LMU München)
Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University): Relations between Muslims and Jews in Sanaa: Between the Muslim Court and the Jewish Court
Michelle Campos (Pennsylvania State University): Partners, Friends, and Neighbors? Jewish-Muslim Social Networks in Late Ottoman Palestine between Empiricism and Nostalgia
Alon Tam (UCLA): Coffeehouse Al-Sharq: Jews, Muslims, and Public Places in mid-20th Century Cairo
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Panel II: International Networks
Chair: Ronny Vollandt (LMU München)
Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (University of Groningen): From Alexandria with Love: Middle Eastern Jewry as Donors within Transnational Philanthropic Networks
Lior Sternfeld (Pennsylvania State University): Waiting to be Rescued? The Condition of the Jews of Iran in Western Eyes before and after the 1979 Revolution.
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Panel III: History and Memory
Chair: Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University/LMU München)
Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago): The Silenced Voices of Sa'ida – Memories of the Gendered Left in Iraq
Aomar Boum (UCLA): Re-Discovering Jews: Non-Academic Historians Write Local Jewish Histories (Morocco)
15:00 Book Reading and Discussion with Author
Mona Yahia (Köln): When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad
Chair and Conclusion: Daniel Mahla (LMU München)
16:00 End of Conference