Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan Muslims (Paris, Publisud, 2011)

This event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation, and the University of California Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Program. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.