I am interested in the history of the Jews of the Muslim and Mediterranean worlds, with a particular focus on the Jews of Morocco. My last book concerns the Moroccan Jewish community and the Sephardi world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which I examine through the activities of Morocco's most important royal agent in this period, Meir Macnin. This study identifies a break in Sephardi history at the time of Emancipation in Western Europe, marking the decline of the trans-national Sephardi diaspora and the beginning of a demarcation within the Jewish world between "Western" and "Oriental" Jews. It raises new questions about Muslim-Jewish relations and the relationship of Jews to the state in Morocco.
My current research focuses on the Jews of the Maghrib from the 15th through the 20th centuries. I seek to understand how Jewish cultures and identities were constituted and transformed, beginning with the mass immigration of Jews from Spain to North Africa in the 15th century, and paying attention to the continuous interaction between different parts of the Mediterranean diaspora until the late 18th century. I study the encounter of the Jews of Morocco with Europe, in the period of European expansion and colonization of the Maghrib in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention to French colonialism and its impact on both urban and rural Jewish communities.
With interests in the Jews of the Islamic world as a whole, I am participating in a major project as Associate Editor (responsible for the post-medieval Arabic speaking world) of the Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World, forthcoming with Brill Academic Publishers.
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DANIEL J. SCHROETER
Ph.D., University of Manchester, 1984
Professor of History
Teller Family Chair in Jewish History
Department of History
220 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3275
tel: 949.824.3841
fax: 949.824.2865
email: djschroe@uci.edu
Fields of Interest:
Jewish history, Morocco, Muslim and Mediterranean worlds
Publications:
The Sultan's Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World (Stanford University Press, 2002)
"A Different Road to Modernity: Jewish Identity in the Arab World," in Diaporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity (University of California Press, 2002)
"The Curse of the Saint," Judaism, vol. 50, 2 (2001)
"Jewish Communities of Morocco: History and Identity," in Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land (Merrell Publishers, 2000)
"Royal Power and the Economy in Precolonial Morocco: Jews and the Legitimation of Foreign Trade,"In the Shadow of the Sultan: Culture, Power and Politics in Morocco," (Harvard University Press, 1999)
"La décourverte des Juifs berbères" in Relations Judéo-Musulmanes au Maroc: perceptions et réalités (Paris: 1997)
With Joseph Chetrit: "The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries in Modern Times (Indiana University Press, 1996)
"From Dhimmis to Colonized Subjects: Moroccan Jews and the Sharifian and French Colonial State," Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 19 (2003)
The Sultan's Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002)
"A Different Road to Modernity: Jewish Identity in the Arab World," in Diaporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity, ed. Howard Wettstein (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002)
"The Curse of the Saint," Judaism, vol. 50, 2 (2001)
"Jewish Communities of Morocco: History and Identity," in Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land (London: Merrell Publishers, 2000)
"Royal Power and the Economy in Precolonial Morocco: Jews and the Legitimation of Foreign Trade," In the Shadow of the Sultan: Culture, Power and Politics in Morocco," ed. Rahma Bourqia and Susan G. Miller (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999)
"La décourverte des Juifs berbères" in Relations Judéo-Musulmanes au Maroc: perceptions et réalités, ed. Michel Abitbol (Paris: Editions Stavit, 1997)
(With Joseph Chetrit) "The Transformation of the Jewish Community of Essaouira (Mogador) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries in Modern Times, ed. Harvey Goldberg (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996)
"Orientalism and the Jews of the Mediterranean," Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 4 (1994)
"The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan City," in New Horizons in Sephardic Studies, ed. George K. Zucker and Yedida K. Stillman (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993)
"Slave Markets and Slavery in Moroccan Urban Society," Slavery and Abolition, 13 (1992)
Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988; Arabic edition, Rabat: 1997)
(With Paul Pascon) "Le cimetière juif d'Iligh, 1751-1955: étude des épitaphes comme documents d'histoire sociale," in Paul Pascon, et al, La Maison d'Iligh et l'histoire sociale du Tazerwalt (Rabat: Société Marocaine des Editeurs Réunis, 1984)
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