Geographical Areas of Specialization: Europe and
North Africa.
Topical Interests: Jewish ethnography
in Europe and North Africa, European ethnography, social anthropology
of kinship and gender, ethnicity and migration, religion in urban
society, collective memory, French social thought.
Current Courses: E371/E600 Modern Jewish Culture and Society
Profile:
My
research is a comparative ethnographic exploration of the process
of migration and its result in the diasporic experience. I have
ethnographically focused on Jewish cultures in the "new" Europe,
half a century after the Holocaust. Thus I have been dealing primarily
with the aftermath of both genocide and colonialism in French urban
society , and the integration of cultural diversity and of variable
historical memories. My study of these historical processes has
been focused on the ethnographic analysis of the relation between
kinship and ethnicity, of collective memory, of post-migration religious
practice, and of urban semiotics.
At
Indiana University I have taught courses in Jewish ethnography,
collective memory, European ethnography, migration and diaspora,
and social theory. These courses have been taught at both undergraduate
and graduate levels.
Selected Publications:
| 1996 |
The Architecture of Memory , Cambridge/New
York: Cambridge University Press. |
| 1983 |
Le culte de la Table Dressée , rites et traditions
de la table juive algérienne. Paris: Editions
A.M. Métailié |
| 1994 |
The Sephardic Jew as Mediterranean? A View From Kinship and
Gender. In Journal of Mediterranean Studies ,4(2):
197-207. |
| 1993 |
Remembering the Domestic Space: A Symbolic Return of Sephardic
Jews. In Going Home, J. Kugelmass, ed., Y.I.V.O.
Annual, vol.21, pp. 133-150. Evanston: Northwestern University
Press. |
| 1989 |
From a Muslim Banquet to a Jewish Seder. In Arabs
and Jews : Contacts and Boundaries, Udovitch A.,
Cohen M., eds., pp.85-95. Princeton: Darwin Press. |
| 1983 |
Nourritures de l'altérité: le double langage
des juifs d'Algérie. In Annales, E.S.C.,
March-April, 2:325-340. |
