International Workshop

Sunday, June 21

9:00-9:10 – Greetings: Dan Diner, Jerusalem
9:10-9:30 – Introduction: Samir Ben-Layashi, Jerusalem

SESSION I
Chair: Rotem Geva, Jerusalem

9:30-10:20 – Daniel J. Schroeter, Minneapolis
Representing the Sultan as Protector of Moroccan Jews during World War II

10:20-10:40 – Coffee break

10:40-11:30 – Aomar Boum, Los Angeles
When Jews Disagree over a Muslim Righteous Among the Nations: The Memory
of Mohamed V in Post-Colonial Holocaust Geographies

11:30-12:20 – Susan Miller, Davis
The Wartime Refugee Crisis in the Western Maghrib

12:20-13:30 – Lunch break

SESSION II
Chair: Kobi Kabalek, Jerusalem

13:30-14:20 – Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli, Oxford/Jerusalem/Be’er Sheva
Surveilling and Negotiating Identities: Social and Political Purge and
Rehabilitation in Morocco during the Vichy and Post-Vichy Periods

14:20-15:10 – Alma Heckman, Los Angeles
A Republican Betrayal: Vichy and the Politicization of Moroccan Jewry

15:10-15:30 – Coffee break

15:30-16:20 – David Stenner, Davis
Looking Towards the Future: Morocco’s Arab-Language Press, the Holocaust,
and Post-European Memory after 1945

16:20-17:10 – Haim Saadoun, Jerusalem
Memories during and just after the War

17:10-17:30 – Project Presentation
The Center for Documentation and Research on North-African Jewry during
World War II at the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in
the East
Tamar Fuks and William Mamane, Jerusalem

Monday, June 22

SESSION III
Chair: Iris Nachum, Jerusalem

9:00-9:50 – Sophie Roberts, Lexington
“To Remain in the Shadow of the Tricolor Flag”: Jews, Citizenship, and Vichy in
French Colonial Algeria, 1940-1943

9:50-10:40 – Daniel Lee, Oxford
The Restitution of Jewish Property in French North Africa at the Liberation and
its Consequences for European Jewry

10:40-11:00 – Coffee break

11:00-11:50 – Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun, Paris
Vu d’Algérie: La Seconde Guerre mondiale dans les souvenirs de Juifs et Juives
nés en Algérie

11:50-12:40 – Patrick Bernhard, Potsdam
In the Shadow of the European Holocaust: The Persecution of Jews in North
Africa during World War II

12:40-14:00 – Lunch break

SESSION IV
Chair: Lutz Fiedler, Jerusalem

14:00-14:50 – Harvey Goldberg, Jerusalem
The Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripoli in 1945: Open Questions and Varying
Perspectives

14:50-15:05 – Book Presentation
Yossi Sucary, Tel Aviv/Jerusalem
“Benghazi – Bergen-Belsen” (novel), Am Oved, 2013 (Hebrew).

15:05-15:30 – Concluding Remarks: Samir Ben-Layashi

16:00-16:30 – Refreshments