Ritual Mutuality in North Africa by Harvey E. Goldberg

“Ritual Mutuality in North Africa: Jews and Muslims
listen to the Ten Commandments in the Synagogue.”

A Public Lecture
Monday, September 15, 2014
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Oak Hall – Room 236

Harvey E. Goldberg’s work focuses on the cultural history of Jews in North Africa, on religious and
ethnic identities in Israel, and on the interfaces of anthropology and Jewish Studies. His
translation from Hebrew of an indigenous account of Jews in Libya – The Book of Mordechai by
Mordecai HaCohen – links historical and eth- nographic perspectives. Goldberg has authored Cave
Dwellers and Citrus Growers: a Jewish Community in Libya and Israel, Jewish Life in Muslim Libya:
Rivals and Relatives, and Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life. Among his edited works are
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries and The Life of Judaism. Today’s talk is based on
ethno-historical research, carried out together with Hagar Salamon, among former
residents of Tunisia and Libya now living in Israel.

Co-Sponsored by Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies,
Humanities Institute, James Barnett Endowment in Humanistic Anthropology,
and The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life