During World War II, the northern Moroccan city of Tangier was home to some 2,000 European Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism. Due to its international status, the city was also home to a diverse range of people, including Moroccan Muslims and Jews, the European diplomatic community, and, ultimately, German foreign officers. In this talk, Natalie Bernstien will discuss this period in Tangier’s history to highlight its significance within the larger history of the Second World War and Holocaust studies in the southern Mediterranean.

About the Speaker

Natalie Bernstien is a PhD Candidate in History at UCLA, where she works on Moroccan Jewish history, focusing primarily on the city of Tangier during the Second World War. She previously lived in Meknes, Morocco as part of the Arabic Flagship Program Capstone year and in Casablanca as a Fulbright student researcher. Most recently, her work has been supported by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), and the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR). Read more about her here.

Lunch will be served.

Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.