Italian Jewish Studies Project - Centro Primo Levi - NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò - Department of History - Department of Italian

 

April 25  | 9:30 am - 2:00 pm | NYU, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò  

24 West 12th Street | Free admission, refreshments   

 

David Meghnagi (Università di Roma Tre)

Mordechai HaCohen: Rabbi and Ethnographer 

 

Barbara Spadaro (University of Bristol)  

From "Mapping Living Memories" to Investigating Postcolonial Histories. Narratives of the Jews from Libya in Historical Perspective.  

 

David Meghnagi is a professor of clinical psychology and director of the master's degree program on the Shoah at the University of Rome. Prof. Meghnagi has written extensively on the experience of the Libyan Jews in Italy and has been involved with Arab-Jewish relations since the 1980s. His examination of Rabbi Mordechai HaCohen's work and life aims at tracing the construction of a Libyan Jewish narrative within the context of the Islamic and Italian societies in early 20th century Libya.  

 

Barbara Spadaro is a researcher at the University of Bristol specializing in the history of Italian colonial relations. She has been awarded a Rothschild Foundation European Source Material Grant for the project Mapping Living Memories. The Jewish Diaspora from Libya across Europe and the Mediterranean, with Piera Rossetto (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) and the Centro di Documentazione Ebraica (CDEC) of Milan. Read