Research Fields
- Modern Jewish History
- History of Jews in the Islamic world
- Cultural and Intellectual history
- History of books
- History of Children and Childhood
- Holocaust Studies
About
David Guedj is a member of the department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. He is a historian of the Jews in Muslim lands, specializing in the culture and society of North African Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. His current research investigates the development and modernization of polyglot book culture in 20th century Morocco.
Selected Publications
1. David Guedj, The Hebrew Culture in Morocco, 1912-1956, The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 2022. (Hebrew)
2. “Jeune Israël: Multiple Modernities of Jewish Childhood and Youth in Morocco in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 112:2 (2022): 316-343.
3. “Double tendance: The Photographic Message in the Egyptian Jewish Youth Magazine L’Illustration Juive, 1929-1931”, Images: a Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 12 (2019): 56-69.
4. “Post-Second World War praise poetry, lament and a Utopian treatise in Morocco: historical literature on the theme of the Second World War”, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17,4 (2018): 455-471.
5. “The Distribution of Heirless Books by the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction to Morocco”, Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 15(2018): 63-72.
Teaching
B.A.
North African Jews from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century
North Africa's Jews during WW2
Education in Jewish society in MENA
M.A.
Issues in the history of the jews in MENA
Study tour through Jewish Morocco