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Professor of History
Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History
Director, Center for Jewish Studies

Email: schro800@umn.edu
phone: (612) 624-9526
CLA interview with Daniel Schroeter

Research Interests

  • Jewish History
  • History of Morocco
  • Jews of the Muslim Mediterranean
  • Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
  • Modern Israel

Selected Publications

“In Search of Jewish Farmers: Jews, Agriculture, and the Land in Rural Morocco,” in Judaism and Islam in Medieval and Modern Times, edited by Michael Laskier and Yaacov Lev, University Press of Florida (in press)

“From Sephardi To Oriental: The “Decline” Theory of Jewish Civilization in The Middle East and North Africa,” in The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea, ed. Richard Cohen and Jeremy Cohen (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007)

“On the Origins and Identity of Indigenous North African Jews,” in North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities, ed. Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)

(With Joseph Chetrit) “Emancipation and its Discontents: Jews at the Formative Period of Colonial Rule in Morocco,” Jewish Social Studies, 13, 1 (2006)

"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)

"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)

Courses:

  • Jews of the Islamic Mediterranean and Christian Europe, 7th - 17th centuries
  • Modern Jewish History
  • Jews and Muslims
  • North Africa since 1500:  Islam and Colonialism
  • Israel and Palestine
  • Jerusalem: Religion and Conflict in Middle Eastern History