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Jewish Voices: Muslim Lands
September 22, 2019 at 7:00 PM
| Location: | Room 303 Paterson Hall |
Frances Malino
Professor Frances Malino, awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Ministry of Education in 2012, is the Sophia Moses Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and History Emerita at Wellesley College. She is the author of The Jews in Modern France (1985), A Jew in the French Revolution: The Life of Zalkind Hourwitz (1996), to name but a few of her publications.
In her lecture, Professor Malino will explore the lives of Jewish women teaching in a network of schools extending from Tetouan in Morocco to Teheran in Iran. Drawing from thousands of letters rescued at the end of WW II, her presentation will shine a light on facets of Jewish history that are often understudied, and in the process will deepen our understanding of 19th and early 20th century France and the experiences of colonized peoples.