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The Living Archive of the Jewish Community in Arab Countries

Today, Jews constitute only tiny communities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, but the region has a rich and varied Jewish past that is now preserved in an extensive reservoir of material culture. Numerous synagogues, cemeteries, ritual objects and other Judaica, and writings are dispersed across Arab and Islamic countries.

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Jews in Muslim Contexts: Spatial Approaches

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Six of this fall’s fellows conceived the program for a day-long symposium on December 12, 2018...
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Opening Seminar: Some Notes on the Idea of Modernity in the MENA

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The Katz Center's 2018–19 fellowship year kicked off last week with a panel discussion.

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A New Way to Understand How History and Memory Are Constructed

Hayden White
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