Where Do Jews Belong? 2 Perspectives from the Jewish 19th Century - Jessica Marglin/Matthias Lehmann

UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
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Matthias Lehmann (UC Irvine)
Jessica Marglin (USC)
Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)
Sady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies
This double book talk features the works, The Baron Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century, by Matthias Lehmann and, The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean, by Jessica Marglin. We believe these two books complement each other well and by merging the two book talks we’re hoping to create a more dynamic and textured conversation on the two perspectives from the Jewish nineteenth century.
Jessica Margin works on the history of Jews in modern North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a focus on law. Her first book, Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016), is a study of Jews in the Moroccan legal system in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her second book is The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2022). This book tells the story of Nissim Shamama and the fabulously complicated lawsuit over his estate; in so doing, it argues for a new approach to the history of belonging on both sides of the Mediterranean.
Matthias Lehmann is an historian of modern European and Mediterranean Jewish history at the University of California, Irvine. An elected member of the American Academy of Jewish Research, He is also co-editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies, and author of several books. His most recent book is The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 2022), a biography of Maurice de Hirsch (1831- 1896), banker, railroad entrepreneur, and one of the most prominent Jewish philanthropists of the modern era. The book offers a new, trans-national perspective on the Jewish nineteenth century by exploring the life of Baron Hirsch - born in Munich, builder of Ottoman railroads, a citizen of Austria, resident of Paris, and founder of the Jewish Colonization Association and its colonization project in Argentina in the 1890s.
Sponsored by the
UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Cosponsored by the
UCI Center for Jewish Studies
USC School of Religion

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