2024 Kallah Scholar Weekend
FRANCES MALINO, Ph.D.
Sophia Moses Robison Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and
History at Wellesley College.
April 5 - 6, 2024
WALK-INS WELCOME BUT PRE-REGISTRATION IS ENCOURAGE FOR ALL PROGRAMS
For more information or any questions, please contact the Temple at 941-383-8428
Frances Malino is the Sophia Moses Robison Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Wellesley College. She is author of The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1978) and A Jew in the French Revolution: The Life of Zalkind Hourwitz (1996) and co-editor of Essays in Modern Jewish History: a Tribute to Ben Halpern (1982), The Jews in Modern France (1985), Profiles in Diversity: Jews in a Changing Europe (1998), and Voices of the Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in the New Europe (2005). Her current project is titled Teaching Freedom: Jewish Sisters in Muslim Lands. Recipient of numerous awards and fellowships she was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Ministry of Education in 2012. Her translation with Yaelle Azagury of the novel Mazaltob will appear in the spring of 2024.
“THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF FRENCH JEWRY ”
The weekend of April 5th-6th will provide all of us in the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Community, especially those of us who are part of the Temple Beth Israel family, the opportunity to engage in study and conversation with one of our generation’s outstanding scholars on the Jewish community of France, Dr. Frances Malino.
Responding to the massacres at the Charlie Hebdo editorial offices and the Hypercacher Kosher supermarket in 2015, the Prime Minister of France, Manuel Valls declared: “If 100,000 French people of Spanish origin were to leave, I would never say that France is no longer France. But, if 100,000 Jews were to leave France, France will no longer be France. The French Republic will be judged a failure!”
Dr. Malino asks us to consider the following questions: “Were the Prime Minister’s words merely rhetorical flourish? Or did the Jews living in France at the end of the 18th century, who made up only a tiny minority of the population, actually play an essential role in the definition of the French Republic? If so, why and how?”
To answer these questions, we will begin our journey in 18th century France. Dr. Malino’s presentations will include the following:
EREV SHABBAT SERVICE - April 5th @ 5:30 pm
“THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, NAPOLEON AND THE JEWS”
There will be a Shabbat Dinner following the presentation and Service. Cost is $35 per person. Reservations are required by Monday, April 1. Contact the Temple office at (941) 383-3428 or use the registration form below.
SHABBAT MORNING SERVICE - April 6th @ 10:00 am
“JEWS AND JUDAISM IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY FRANCE”
(Following the Service and Presentation, all in attendance are invited to partake of a light lunch at TBI’s Shabbat Café) In order for us to provide adequate food, we ask that you RSVP to the Temple office by Tuesday, Apr. 2
The TBI Kallah Scholar Weekend is made possible through a grant from the Rabbi Sanford Saperstein Memorial Fund