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THE RABBI SIDNEY H. BROOKS LECTURE Guest Speaker: Dr. Daniel J. Schroeter |
Dr. Daniel J. Schroeter
He has also taught at the University of Florida, Gainseville; The Goerge Washington University in Washington, D.C.; University of Utah, Salt Lake City and Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes à Saint –Denis. Among his many publications are the books, The Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002; Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886, Middle East Library, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988; translated into Arabic as: Tujjar al-Sawira: al-mujtama‘ al-hadariyya wa-l-imbiriyaliyya fi janub gharb al-Maghrib, 1886-1844, translated by Khalid Ben Srhir. Rabat: Mohamed V University, Publications of Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, 1997, which was the recipient of the Moulay Rachid National Book Prize for best translated book of the year, 1997,and in collaboration with Paul Pascon, et al, La Maison d’Iligh et l’histoire sociale du Tazerwalt, Rabat: Société Marocaine des Editeurs Réunis: 1984. He has also been published in The Jewish Contribution to Civilization;,Jewish Social Studies;,Le monde sépharade: histoire et civilization; Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege, Studies in Contemporary Jewry; La Méditerranée des Juifs: Exodes et enracinements; Jews, Turks, and Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries; Diaporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity; Judaism; Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land; Juifs parmi les Berbères: Photographies d’Elias Harrus; In the Shadow of the Sultan: Culture, Power and Politics in Morocco;” From Iberia to Diaspora: Studies in Sephardic History and Culture; Relations Judéo-Musulmanes au Maroc: perceptions et réalités; The Muslim Almanac,; Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries in Modern Times; , Miqqedem Umiyyam; The Jews of the Ottoman Empire; Journal of Mediterranean Studies; New Horizons in Sephardic Studies; Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East; The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, Slavery and Abolition; Jews Among Arabs: Contacts and Boundaries; Hasfirah, Misgav Yerushalayim Studies in Jewish Literature; Revue de l’Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée; Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, and in Communautés juives des marges sahariennes du Maghreb. He has had reviews appearing in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Canadian Journal of African Studies, The American Historical Review, Journal of Jewish Studies, Shofar, The International History Review, Association for Jewish Studies Review, Middle East Journal, Journal of Semitic Studies, Al Masaq, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies He is working on “On the Origins and Identity of Indigenous North African Jews” article for book on The Berbers and Other Minorities in North Africa, edited by Nabil Boudraa, Cambridge Scholars Press; is c o-authoring a book with Joseph Chetrit on Moroccan Jewries in the Modern Era, 18 th-20 th Centuries; co-editing a book with Emily Gottreich on Rethinking Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa , and c o-authoring a book with Sarah Levin, Jews Among Berbers: The Photographs of Elias Harrus, 1940-1960. |
Dr. Daniel J. Schroeter is a professor and the Teller Family Chair in Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California. He has his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in Near Eastern Studies with a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies. His M.A. in Near Eastern Studies is from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his B.A. is from the University of Washington, Seattle in History/Near Eastern Languages and Literature. He also took courses in the History of Muslim Countries at Hebrew University Jerusalem.