Daniel Schroeter

Publications

• Schroeter, Daniel J. and Aomar Boum. “Moroccan Jewish History and Culture in Public Discourse: Historians, Journalists and Gatekeepers of Memory,” in Histoire contemporaine du Maroc, passé et Temps present: Mélanges en l’honneur de Mohammed Kenbib, ed. Khalid Ben Srhir (Rabat: Université Mohammed V, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 2021), 340-358.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “The Modern Diaspora of Jews from the Arab Middle East and North Africa” in The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora, ed. Hasia R. Diner (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)

• Schroeter, Daniel J. "Between Metropole and French North Africa: Vichy’s Anti-Semitic Legislation and Colonialism’s Racial Hierarchies,” in The Holocaust and North Africa, ed. Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019), 19-49. 

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “Islamic Anti-Semitism” in Historical Discourse, The American Historical Review 123, 4, (2018): 1172–1189.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “Philo-Sephardism, Anti-Semitism and Arab Nationalism: Muslims and Jews in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco during the Period of the Third Reich,” in Nazism, the Holocaust and the Middle East: Arab and Turkish Responses, ed. Frank Nicosia and Boĝaç Ergene (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 179-215.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “Vichy in Morocco: The Residency, Mohammed V and His Indigenous Jewish Subjects,” in Colonialism and the Jews, ed. Ethan Katz, Lisa Leff, Maud Mandel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017), 215-250.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “Moroccan Jewish Studies in Israel,” in Jews of Morocco and the Maghrib: History and Historiography, ed. Aomar Boum, Jessica Marglin, Khalid Ben-Srhir and Mohammed Kenbib, Hespéris-Tamuda, vol. 60, fasc. 2, Part I (2016): 83-105.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “The Changing Landscape of Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Modern Middle East and North Africa,” in Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East, ed. . S.R Goldstein-Sabbah and Heleen L. Murre-van den Berg (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 39-67.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. and Emily Gottreich, editors. Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011).

• Schroeter, Daniel J. The Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002). Arabic edition, Yahudi al-Sultan: al-Maghrib wa-‘alam al-Yahud al-Sifarad (Rabat: Mohammed V University-Agdal, Publications of Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, 2011).

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “The Shifting boundaries of Moroccan Jewish Identities,” Jewish Social Studies 15, 1 (2008): 145-164.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “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), 125-148.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “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), 164-177.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. and Joseph Chetrit, “Emancipation and its Discontents: Jews at the Formative Period of Colonial Rule in Morocco,” Jewish Social Studies 13, 1 (2006): 170-206.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “La décourverte des Juifs berbères” in Relations Judéo-Musulmanes au Maroc: perceptions et réalités, ed. Michel Abitbol (Paris: Editions Stavit, 1997), 169-187. Arabic translation: “Iktishaf al-Yahud al-Amazigh,” Qira’at, nº 4 (Spring 2006): 16-35.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “From Dhimmis to Colonized Subjects: Moroccan Jews and the Sharifian and French Colonial State” in Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege, ed. Ezra Mendelsohn, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 19 (2003): 104-123.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “Jewish Communities of Morocco:  History and Identity,” in Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land, ed. Vivian Mann (London:  Merrell Publishers in association with The Jewish Museum, New York, 2000), 25-54. 

• Schroeter, Daniel J. Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). Arabic edition, Tujjar al-Sawira: al-mujtama‘ al-hadariyya wa-l-imbiriyaliyya fi janub gharb al-Maghrib, 1886-1844, trans. Khalid Ben Srhir (Rabat: Mohammed V University, Publications of Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, 1997). Recipient of the National Book Prize of Morocco for best translated book of the year, 1997.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. “Slave Markets and Slavery in Moroccan Urban Society,” in The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, ed. Elizabeth Savage (London: Frank Cass, special issue of Slavery and Abolition13, 1 (1992): 185-213.

• Schroeter, Daniel J. and Paul Pascon. “Le cimetière juif d’Iligh, 1751-1955: étude des épitaphes comme documents d’histoire démographique,” in Paul Pascon, A. Arrif, D. Schroeter, M. Tozy, H. Van Der Wusten, La Maison d’Iligh et l’histoire sociale du Tazerwalt (Rabat: Société Marocaine des Editeurs Réunis, 1984), 113-140.

Activities

Awards

• Fellowship, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Fall 2022
• Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, Fall 2016.
• Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. 2014-2015
• Fellowship, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Fall 2007 and Fall 1997
• U.S. Distinguished Lecturer, Fulbright Scholar Program, Morocco, March 2007
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers for Research, 1989-90

Courses

• HIST 3512: History of Modern Israel/Palestine: Society, Culture, Politics
• HIST 3960: North Africa since 1500: Islam and Colonialism
• HIST 3606: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle Ages
• HIST 3511: Muslims and Jews: Conflict and Co-existence in the Middle East and North Africa since 1700
• HIST 1362/3362: Global History of World War II
• HIST 4011W: Global Jerusalem: Jews, Christians & Muslims in the Contested City