Jewish Studies Book Club featuring Jessica Marglin, “Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco”

Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco, which won the 2017–2018 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture and the 2016 Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research, examines Jewish–Muslim relations in Morocco by following the Assarrafs, a Judeo-Morrocan merchant family from Fez, in the late 19th and early 20th century, a time of upheaval in Morocco. Jessica Marglin demonstrates that Jews used the courts and law to integrate into Muslim society until European colonial powers intervened. Through a legal lens, Marglin challenges common perceptions of Jewish history, Jewish–Muslim relations, the Middle East, and the nature of legal pluralism. Join us for an evening conversation with Jessica Marglin about her award-winning book.

Copies of the book can be purchased at the Fordham Bookstore at Lincoln Center (113 West 60th Street) or online at yalebooks.com with a 25% discount (code for online purchases YZ979). CUNY graduate students and Fordham students and faculty can request copies of their books free of charge by contacting jewishstudies@fordham.edu.

The Jewish Studies Book Club is a joint initiative of The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Fordham University, in collaboration with the New York Public Library.