Name: A Jewish roadtrip through Nineteenth-Century Yemen
Start: 2025-06-08T09:30:00+1000
End: 2025-06-08T10:30:00+1000

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Sunday June 8, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am AEST

M1.02 - Rm 10

In 1869, a European-Jewish professor arrived in Yemen to study its ancient ruins and hired a local Yemenite Jew as his guide. The two travelled together for a year, crossing mountains and deserts, and meeting Jews and Muslims of all kinds, before having a falling out. This talk explores the unusual Jewish communities that they encountered, and how they responded to the challenge of meeting Jews with very different cultural values from their own.

Speakers

Alan Verskin

Alan Verskin is the Samuel J. Zacks Chair of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. He has held academic positions at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Rhode Island. He researches the history of the Jews of the Islamic world, Ashkenazi-Sephardi... Read More →

Sunday June 8, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am AEST
M1.02 - Rm 10

History and memory

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Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025

Alan Verskin

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