The Jews of Egypt from Antiquity to Modernity Part III: 'Egyptian Jews in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Between Migration and Social Mobility'

This is the final lecture in a three-part series exploring the history of the Jews of Egypt from antiquity to modernity.

This lecture will survey the history of Egyptian Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the mass migrations that both created and dissolved it, and their impact on the community's social realities, in the broader context of Egyptian history.

Alon Tam is a social historian of modern Egypt and of its Jewish community. He has written about the social and political history of Cairo's coffeehouses, about Cairo's Jews and their place in its urban history, as well as on such topics that range from the Jewish press in Tangier, Morocco to Blackface in Egyptian theater. Tam received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, and he has held postdoctoral fellowships at Penn, Columbia University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of California in Los Angeles.