Jessica Marglin receives the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture
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Award received by Jessica Marglin, 2017-2018 Paris IAS fellow, for her book Across Legal Lines. Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016)
About the book
A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews’ integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived.
Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, Jessica Marglin charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society—until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their legal mobility. Drawing on a broad range of archival documents, Marglin expands our understanding of contemporary relations between Jews and Muslims and changes the way we think about Jewish history, the Middle East, and the nature of legal pluralism.
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