Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

This lecture examines the process of Jewish emigration from Spanish-dominated northern Morocco, and points to the trans-regional, inter-personal, communal and institutional networks that jointly shaped the character and pace of that exodus to Israel and Latin America, beginning in the 19th century.
The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

Aviad Moreno is a faculty member at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and a current fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation, “Ethnicity in Motion: Social Networks in the Emigration of Jews from Northern Morocco to Venezuela and Israel, 1860–2010,” earned the 2016 Ben Halpern Prize for best dissertation in Israel Studies by the Association for Israel Studies. Moreno’s first book, Europe from Morocco: The Minutes of the Leadership of Tangier’s Jewish Community, 1860–1864, was published in 2015 by the Ben Zvi Institute. His present research focuses on the formation of a Jewish Moroccan diaspora.