Mon Nov 16 · 5pm
History of Now Lectures: Orit Bashkin, Reluctant Neighbors: History of Jews in Palestine and the Levant, 1700-1850
Orit Bashkin, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago, gives the third History of Now lecture, on Jewish life in Palestine and the Levant between 1700 and 1850. Bashkin works on the intellectual, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East and has published on Iraqi history, Iraqi Jews and the nahda, the Arab cultural revival of the late 19th century.