ABSTRACT This paper examines Chochana Boukhobza’s For the Love of the Father as a critical intervention in reclaiming the silenced histories of Maghrebi Jewish women within postcolonial and diasporic discourses. Drawing on Dario Miccoli’s theories of memory and nostalgia and Brahim El Guabli’s concept of Maghrebography, it explores how Boukhobza challenges Eurocentric and Ashkenazi-centered narratives of Jewish identity. Through the interplay of personal and collective memory, the novel reconstructs Maghrebi Jewish heritage while revealing the tensions of exile, generational fragmentation and cultural hybridity, reimagining the Tunisian Jewish diasporic experience and foregrounding female voices within francophone postcolonial studies.

ABSTRACT The paper examines Jacob Marcaria’s life and activity, a prominent figure in the Italian-Jewish Renaissance, best known for his Hebrew publishing activity in Riva del Garda. Moving beyond his contribution as a printer, which still deserves attention, the study explores Marcaria’s multifaceted identity as a member of the rabbinical court in Venice, physician, matchmaker, and intellectual personality of the time. Drawing on previously unpublished documents, the paper offers new insights into the cultural networks of 16th-century Italian Jewry. Marcaria’s life reveals significant interactions between Jewish and Christian elites and highlights broader dynamics of Jewish existence in northern Italy’s Venetian context.

ABSTRACT What colours do we see in the rainbow? Pre-modern discussions are often based on translations and commentaries of ancient Greek texts, in particular Aristotle’s Meteorology. This study traces how Aristotle’s colour terminology was received and reinterpreted in Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, and Hebrew texts from the ninth to thirteenth centuries, focusing particularly on Ibn Biṭrīq, Ibn Rushd, and Samuel Ibn Tibbon. It explores how translators and commentators negotiated between semantic equivalence and linguistic distinctiveness and argues that inherited Greek colour terminologies reflects both shared cultural environments and different processes of translation, interpretation, and adaptation.

ABSTRACT As an alternative to the common depiction of Jewish migration movements from the angle of the immigrants, this article suggests a focus on the perspective of the local Jewish population and their experiences with the new refugee arrivals. The concrete centerpiece is an episode of encounter surrounding a defective Torah scroll in Ottoman Constantinople around 1500, which is recorded in a halakhic decision reached by the local Romaniot Rabbi Elijah Mizraḥi at the request of the immigrant Sephardi Rabbi Solomon Alṭabib. An analysis of the events reveals the different strategies of the actors, fused with divergent conceptions of intra-Jewish relations.

ABSTRACT This article explores notions of history and historical imagination through an unusual text published in Algiers in 1891: A serialized story titled The Tale of Edison describing the world of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia in the tenth century. Through a close reading of the narrative and a tracing of stylistic influences, the article pieces together an attempt to create a modern adventure story rooted in Arab, Islamic and Jewish history, transcending the geographical distance of the Maghrib and the Mashriq, the temporal distance of past and present, and the stylistic distance between the European feuilleton and the Jewish folktale.

ABSTRACT Based on newly uncovered documents, this study reframes the anti-Theosophical debate in Basra (1928–1936) as a trans-local intellectual and political struggle rooted in the British Indian Ocean world. It highlights the interplay between Jewish and Muslim actors, such as Isaac Nathan and ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Hāshimī, as well as global Jewish networks and local cultural dynamics. Rather than reactionary, the opposition to Theosophy represented a conservative engagement with modernity. The conflict exposed competing visions of modernity, rationalist versus esoteric, and fostered unexpected intercommunal alliances. It demonstrates how local developments shaped and were shaped by global discourse, emphasizing their mutual entanglement.

ABSTRACT This article examines how the Turkish-Islamist movement Millî Görüş portrayed Jews, Judaism, and Zionism from the 1970s to the 1990s. While conspiratorial tropes about Jewish global power remained central, the movement’s discourse evolved in response to political pressures – especially in Germany. By the 1990s, Millî Görüş distinguished between Zionism and Judaism, acknowledged the Holocaust, and portrayed Turkish Jews with increasing nuance. These rhetorical shifts did not reflect ideological transformation but were, most likely, strategic adaptations to avoid scrutiny. Drawing on articles from Milli Gazete, the paper traces both continuity and change in the movement’s anti-Jewish discourse over time.