Jessica M Marglin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3587233 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jessica M Marglin |
| PRENOMES | Jessica M |
| SOBRENOME | Marglin |
| ASSINATURA | MARGLIN J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southern California |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Kings of Algiers
Toward a Maghribi Turn in Ottoman History
The fields of Ottoman and Maghribi history have largely developed independently of one another. Thanks to the outlooks of both colonialist and nationalist historiographies of the Maghrib, historians of North Africa for a long time mostly ignored the Ottoman presence or depicted the Ottomans as distant, foreign conquerors. Ottoman historians tended to see the Maghrib as peripheral to the history of the empire and to portray North African provinces…
Legal Pluralism as a Category of Analysis
A debate has raged for decades over legal pluralism and its value for the study of law. Much of this back and forth has resolved to a fight over what law “is” and push-and-pull between legal centrists and pluralists. This introductory essay proposes a new framework for thinking about legal pluralism. Turning away from the centrist/pluralist binary, we instead ask what work legal pluralism as a category of analysis can do. The debate, we suggest, …
Belonging in French North Africa
s: At the dawn of the twentieth century, French-educated Jews and Muslims in Tunisia debated the nature of Jews' citizenship as part of a broader conversation on colonial policy. A group of Jews known as La Justice argued that Jews were not Tunisian nationals; rather, they had always been considered foreigners according to Islamic law. The Jeunes tunisiens (Young Tunisians), reform-minded Muslims, countered that Jews in Tunisia were full citizens…
Jews, Law, and the Modern State
This article explores the transformation of Jewish law in the French colonial Maghrib (late nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century). Drawing primarily on Jewish newspapers in French and Judeo-Arabic and responsa in Hebrew, it explores how the perception and practice of Jewish law shifted in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. First, westernizing Jews came to think about Jewish law through the lens of French law. The status of women under Jewish l…
The Crémieux Decree seen from afar
The Crémieux Decree of 1870, by which Jews in most of Algeria were given French citizenship en masse, has played a central role in the history of Algerian Jews. This is particularly true of the history of citizenship and nationality: because the Crémieux Decree naturalised Jews from Algeria's three northern départements as full citizens of France, Jews in Algeria disrupted the hierarchy that placed Europeans (citizens) above indigenous Algerians …
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…
The Shamama Case
The Shamama Case
In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewis…
The Shamama Case
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate-a matter that depended …
Writing Nissim Shamama
What is a Tunisian? Jews and Belonging in the Nineteenth Century
This paper looks at understandings of citizenship and its extension to Jews in nineteenth-century Tunisia. Taking the case study of the Shamama lawsuit –a sprawling legal battle over the estate of Nissim Shamama, a Jew from Tunis who died in Italy in 1873– the paper argues that Muslims were the ones to make the most robust argument for Jews as full members of the Tunisian state. European jurists, on the other hand, tended to understand Jews’ lega…
Jewish Law and the Global Turn in Legal History
Extraterritoriality and Legal Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
This article examines the intersection between extraterritoriality--privileges afforded to European subjects in the Islamic Mediterranean--and various forms of state membership. To capture the multiplicity and instability of state membership, I introduce the phrase “legal belonging”--a neutral, umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of bonds between individuals and states (usually referred to as subjecthood, nationality, or citizenship). Ado…
Jews, Rights, and Belonging in Tunisia
À partir du cas de Léon Elmilik, un juif algérien qui a fait carrière en Tunisie au XIXe siècle, cet article propose une lecture de la citoyenneté au-delà de son statut formel, celui centré sur le statut accordé aux citoyens au sens juridique. Elmilik a d’abord oeuvré avec des juifs et des chrétiens, unis dans un même but : celui de moderniser et d’occidentaliser la Tunisie. À cette fin, il a participé au comité local de l’Alliance israélite univ…
David Castelli on Nationalism and Universalism
The Jewish Quarterly Review (Fall 2020) Copyright (c) 2020 Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. All rights reserved. T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Fall 2020) 610-612 David Castelli on Nationalism and Universalism JESSICA M. MARGLIN AT THE AGE OF twenty- seven, David Castelli had a crisis of faith. Born in the Tuscan port city of Livorno in 1836, Castelli was a promising student on the path to rabb…
La nationalité en procès
sCet article emploie la microhistoire d'une affaire transnationale qui se déroulait entre l'Italie et la Tunisie pendant les années 1870 et 1880 pour éprouver le droit international grâce à une approche qui va au-delà des frontières de l'Occident. L'affaireSamama contre Samamaprésente un litige fort compliqué, examiné par les cours de justice italiennes pendant près d'une décennie. La principale difficulté du procès concernait la nationalité de N…
Jonathan Wyrtzen. Making Morocco
While a growing number of monographs on Moroccan history are available in English, the years during which Europeans ruled Morocco (from 1912 to 1956) remain underrepresented outside of French-language scholarship. Jonathan Wyrtzen’s book offers the first comprehensive history of Morocco under the French and Spanish protectorates for scholars and students who do not read French. Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity fo…
Written and Oral in Islamic Law
This article begins from the premise that the margins can shine light on the center, and uses the experience of Jews (thought of as marginal in the Islamic world) in Moroccan courts (similarly thought of as marginal in Islamic history) to tell a new story about orality and writing in Islamic law. Using archival evidence from nineteenth-century Morocco, I argue that, contrary to the prevailing historiography, written evidence was central to proced…
Across Legal Lines
This book presents a previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived. Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, the book charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society—until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their…
A New Language of Equality
In the late nineteenth century, the Moroccan government’s concern for its image abroad ushered in a new approach to understanding Jews’ rights. Although the sultans never abandoned the dhimma contract in favour of religious egalitarianism, government officials increasingly adopted a new language of equality to describe how Jewish subjects should be treated. This language of equality borrowed vocabulary from Western notions of tolerance, but did n…
Between Tolerance and Persecution
The Two Lives of Masʿud Amoyal
After France's 1830 invasion of Algeria, Algerians residing outside of the new French colony could potentially be considered French subjects. A number of Moroccans, eager to partake of the legal and financial advantages of foreign nationality, crossed the border into Algeria and obtained documentation falsely attesting to their Algerian origins; they then returned to Morocco, where they convinced French consular authorities to register them as Fr…
Modernizing Moroccan Jews
This article examines the Alumni Association of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Tangier through the organization's bulletins, published between 1893 and 1913. The Alumni Association was a group of self-consciously modernizing Jews who, as graduates of the Alliance school, wanted to help spread European culture and values they had imbibed as students to other Jews in Tangier and beyond. Through their annual bulletins, the Alumni Association …
Across Legal Lines
The Two Lives of Masʿud Amoyal
After France's 1830 invasion of Algeria, Algerians residing outside of the new French colony could potentially be considered French subjects. A number of Moroccans, eager to partake of the legal and financial advantages of foreign nationality, crossed the border into Algeria and obtained documentation falsely attesting to their Algerian origins; they then returned to Morocco, where they convinced French consular authorities to register them as Fr…
Written and Oral in Islamic Law
This article begins from the premise that the margins can shine light on the center, and uses the experience of Jews (thought of as marginal in the Islamic world) in Moroccan courts (similarly thought of as marginal in Islamic history) to tell a new story about orality and writing in Islamic law. Using archival evidence from nineteenth-century Morocco, I argue that, contrary to the prevailing historiography, written evidence was central to proced…
Extraterritoriality and Legal Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
This article examines the intersection between extraterritoriality--privileges afforded to European subjects in the Islamic Mediterranean--and various forms of state membership. To capture the multiplicity and instability of state membership, I introduce the phrase “legal belonging”--a neutral, umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of bonds between individuals and states (usually referred to as subjecthood, nationality, or citizenship). Ado…
A New Language of Equality
In the late nineteenth century, the Moroccan government’s concern for its image abroad ushered in a new approach to understanding Jews’ rights. Although the sultans never abandoned the dhimma contract in favour of religious egalitarianism, government officials increasingly adopted a new language of equality to describe how Jewish subjects should be treated. This language of equality borrowed vocabulary from Western notions of tolerance, but did n…
Modernizing Moroccan Jews
This article examines the Alumni Association of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Tangier through the organization's bulletins, published between 1893 and 1913. The Alumni Association was a group of self-consciously modernizing Jews who, as graduates of the Alliance school, wanted to help spread European culture and values they had imbibed as students to other Jews in Tangier and beyond. Through their annual bulletins, the Alumni Association …
Modernizing Moroccan Jews
This article examines the Alumni Association of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Tangier through the organization's bulletins, published between 1893 and 1913. The Alumni Association was a group of self-consciously modernizing Jews who, as graduates of the Alliance school, wanted to help spread European culture and values they had imbibed as students to other Jews in Tangier and beyond. Through their annual bulletins, the Alumni Association …
The Two Lives of Masʿud Amoyal
After France's 1830 invasion of Algeria, Algerians residing outside of the new French colony could potentially be considered French subjects. A number of Moroccans, eager to partake of the legal and financial advantages of foreign nationality, crossed the border into Algeria and obtained documentation falsely attesting to their Algerian origins; they then returned to Morocco, where they convinced French consular authorities to register them as Fr…
Between Tolerance and Persecution
Across Legal Lines
This book presents a previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived. Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, the book charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society—until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their…
A New Language of Equality
In the late nineteenth century, the Moroccan government’s concern for its image abroad ushered in a new approach to understanding Jews’ rights. Although the sultans never abandoned the dhimma contract in favour of religious egalitarianism, government officials increasingly adopted a new language of equality to describe how Jewish subjects should be treated. This language of equality borrowed vocabulary from Western notions of tolerance, but did n…
Jonathan Wyrtzen. Making Morocco
While a growing number of monographs on Moroccan history are available in English, the years during which Europeans ruled Morocco (from 1912 to 1956) remain underrepresented outside of French-language scholarship. Jonathan Wyrtzen’s book offers the first comprehensive history of Morocco under the French and Spanish protectorates for scholars and students who do not read French. Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity fo…
Written and Oral in Islamic Law
This article begins from the premise that the margins can shine light on the center, and uses the experience of Jews (thought of as marginal in the Islamic world) in Moroccan courts (similarly thought of as marginal in Islamic history) to tell a new story about orality and writing in Islamic law. Using archival evidence from nineteenth-century Morocco, I argue that, contrary to the prevailing historiography, written evidence was central to proced…
La nationalité en procès
sCet article emploie la microhistoire d'une affaire transnationale qui se déroulait entre l'Italie et la Tunisie pendant les années 1870 et 1880 pour éprouver le droit international grâce à une approche qui va au-delà des frontières de l'Occident. L'affaireSamama contre Samamaprésente un litige fort compliqué, examiné par les cours de justice italiennes pendant près d'une décennie. La principale difficulté du procès concernait la nationalité de N…
Jews, Rights, and Belonging in Tunisia
À partir du cas de Léon Elmilik, un juif algérien qui a fait carrière en Tunisie au XIXe siècle, cet article propose une lecture de la citoyenneté au-delà de son statut formel, celui centré sur le statut accordé aux citoyens au sens juridique. Elmilik a d’abord oeuvré avec des juifs et des chrétiens, unis dans un même but : celui de moderniser et d’occidentaliser la Tunisie. À cette fin, il a participé au comité local de l’Alliance israélite univ…
David Castelli on Nationalism and Universalism
The Jewish Quarterly Review (Fall 2020) Copyright (c) 2020 Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. All rights reserved. T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Fall 2020) 610-612 David Castelli on Nationalism and Universalism JESSICA M. MARGLIN AT THE AGE OF twenty- seven, David Castelli had a crisis of faith. Born in the Tuscan port city of Livorno in 1836, Castelli was a promising student on the path to rabb…
Extraterritoriality and Legal Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
This article examines the intersection between extraterritoriality--privileges afforded to European subjects in the Islamic Mediterranean--and various forms of state membership. To capture the multiplicity and instability of state membership, I introduce the phrase “legal belonging”--a neutral, umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of bonds between individuals and states (usually referred to as subjecthood, nationality, or citizenship). Ado…
The Shamama Case
The Shamama Case
In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewis…
The Shamama Case
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate-a matter that depended …
Writing Nissim Shamama
What is a Tunisian? Jews and Belonging in the Nineteenth Century
This paper looks at understandings of citizenship and its extension to Jews in nineteenth-century Tunisia. Taking the case study of the Shamama lawsuit –a sprawling legal battle over the estate of Nissim Shamama, a Jew from Tunis who died in Italy in 1873– the paper argues that Muslims were the ones to make the most robust argument for Jews as full members of the Tunisian state. European jurists, on the other hand, tended to understand Jews’ lega…
Jewish Law and the Global Turn in Legal History
Jews, Law, and the Modern State
This article explores the transformation of Jewish law in the French colonial Maghrib (late nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century). Drawing primarily on Jewish newspapers in French and Judeo-Arabic and responsa in Hebrew, it explores how the perception and practice of Jewish law shifted in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. First, westernizing Jews came to think about Jewish law through the lens of French law. The status of women under Jewish l…
The Crémieux Decree seen from afar
The Crémieux Decree of 1870, by which Jews in most of Algeria were given French citizenship en masse, has played a central role in the history of Algerian Jews. This is particularly true of the history of citizenship and nationality: because the Crémieux Decree naturalised Jews from Algeria's three northern départements as full citizens of France, Jews in Algeria disrupted the hierarchy that placed Europeans (citizens) above indigenous Algerians …
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…
Across Legal Lines
Toward a Maghribi Turn in Ottoman History
The fields of Ottoman and Maghribi history have largely developed independently of one another. Thanks to the outlooks of both colonialist and nationalist historiographies of the Maghrib, historians of North Africa for a long time mostly ignored the Ottoman presence or depicted the Ottomans as distant, foreign conquerors. Ottoman historians tended to see the Maghrib as peripheral to the history of the empire and to portray North African provinces…
Legal Pluralism as a Category of Analysis
A debate has raged for decades over legal pluralism and its value for the study of law. Much of this back and forth has resolved to a fight over what law “is” and push-and-pull between legal centrists and pluralists. This introductory essay proposes a new framework for thinking about legal pluralism. Turning away from the centrist/pluralist binary, we instead ask what work legal pluralism as a category of analysis can do. The debate, we suggest, …
Belonging in French North Africa
s: At the dawn of the twentieth century, French-educated Jews and Muslims in Tunisia debated the nature of Jews' citizenship as part of a broader conversation on colonial policy. A group of Jews known as La Justice argued that Jews were not Tunisian nationals; rather, they had always been considered foreigners according to Islamic law. The Jeunes tunisiens (Young Tunisians), reform-minded Muslims, countered that Jews in Tunisia were full citizens…
The Kings of Algiers
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