Emily Benichou Gottreich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Benichou Gottreich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily Benichou |
| FAMILY NAME | Gottreich |
| SIGNATURE | GOTTREICH E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Global Studies and Department of History; Senior Research Scholar and Program Director of MENA-J, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
In this introduction, we chart the intellectual journey of Susan Gilson Miller and discuss her scholarly contributions to the field of North African Studies, Moroccan historiography and Moroccan Jewish history. We note Miller’s long commitment to foregrounding Maghribi voices, including female and minority accounts. Miller’s work on the Jewish communities of Morocco in particular has skillfully shown the complex position of these communities acro…
Jewish Morocco
The history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Gottreich examines the history of Jews in Morocco from the pre-Islamic period to post-colonial times, drawing on newly acquired evidence from archival materials in Rabat. Pr…
Rosen, Lawrence
Anthropos , Seite 354 - 355
Of Messiahs and Sultans
Moroccan Jews became “modern” through a complex process of cultural and legal changes resulting in large part from their close encounter with imperial Europe. Institutions like the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the protégé system had an undeniable influence on the transformation of Moroccan Jewish identity and expectations during this period. In order to fully historicize Moroccan Jewish modernity, however—to locate its beginnings as well as…
Plumes
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib Emily Benichou Gottreich (bio) Keywords Emily Benichou Gottreich, Arab Jews, Exile, Maghrib, Zionist Narratives, Northern Africa, Morocco, post-Zionist discourse, Jewish Identity To begin, a few quick observations about the concept of the "Arab Jew" that prompt the current intervention: (1), it is largely an identity of exile; (2), it implies a particular politics of knowledge vis-à-vis the Is…
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib Emily Benichou Gottreich (bio) Keywords Emily Benichou Gottreich, Arab Jews, Exile, Maghrib, Zionist Narratives, Northern Africa, Morocco, post-Zionist discourse, Jewish Identity To begin, a few quick observations about the concept of the "Arab Jew" that prompt the current intervention: (1), it is largely an identity of exile; (2), it implies a particular politics of knowledge vis-à-vis the Is…
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib Emily Benichou Gottreich (bio) Keywords Emily Benichou Gottreich, Arab Jews, Exile, Maghrib, Zionist Narratives, Northern Africa, Morocco, post-Zionist discourse, Jewish Identity To begin, a few quick observations about the concept of the "Arab Jew" that prompt the current intervention: (1), it is largely an identity of exile; (2), it implies a particular politics of knowledge vis-à-vis the Is…
Plumes
Of Messiahs and Sultans
Moroccan Jews became “modern” through a complex process of cultural and legal changes resulting in large part from their close encounter with imperial Europe. Institutions like the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the protégé system had an undeniable influence on the transformation of Moroccan Jewish identity and expectations during this period. In order to fully historicize Moroccan Jewish modernity, however—to locate its beginnings as well as…
Rosen, Lawrence
Anthropos , Seite 354 - 355
Jewish Morocco
The history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Gottreich examines the history of Jews in Morocco from the pre-Islamic period to post-colonial times, drawing on newly acquired evidence from archival materials in Rabat. Pr…
Introduction
In this introduction, we chart the intellectual journey of Susan Gilson Miller and discuss her scholarly contributions to the field of North African Studies, Moroccan historiography and Moroccan Jewish history. We note Miller’s long commitment to foregrounding Maghribi voices, including female and minority accounts. Miller’s work on the Jewish communities of Morocco in particular has skillfully shown the complex position of these communities acro…
History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)