ARCHIVED EVENT
The 2021-22 Thomas and Diann Mann Symposium Series
Session 1
Adjudicating Belonging Across the Mediterranean: Sephardi Jews between Italy and Tunisia
Jessica Marglin, Associate Professor of Religion, Law, and History, Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair
in Jewish Studies, University of Southern California
In 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died in his palace in Livorno, Italy. He left behind a huge fortune, but no children. His surviving heirs fought bitterly over his enormous estate; the ensuing lawsuit boiled down to whether Shamama had been an Italian citizen or a Tunisian subject. This talk uses the case study of the Shamama trial to explore debates about Jews and nationality as they played out across the Mediterranean. For more information: fireman.2@osu.edu
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https://osu.zoom.us/j/97385322404?pwd=d3RJSmxBc2x2aDFWUis0cXV3VWo3QT09
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Session 2
(Topic and date TBA)
Yuval Evri, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, Associate Professor of early modern history and modern Jewish history at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
The Mann Symposium Series is generously funded by Thomas and Diann Mann.
