Emily Gottreich, "Moroccan Jews and the Ornaments of Acculturation"

Speaker: Prof. Emily Gottreich, Interim Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley Jews have lived in Morocco for over two millennia, both prior to and eventually deeply integrated with Moroccan Muslims. Their communities were also among the largest in the Arab world, and boast an impressive cultural heritage, expressed in The Magnes Collection through textiles, photographs and illustrated manuscripts. Professor Emily Gottreich explores the history of Moroccan Jews and Muslim-Jewish interconnections in Morocco through two ornamented tallit bags and a photograph depicting Jewish life in Fez.