Dr. Alon Tam, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, will explore the history of ties between the Jewish community in Egypt and the one in Palestine before 1948 (the Yishuv), and the history of Jewish Egyptians' integration in Israel after 1948.

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About the Speaker

Dr. Alon Tam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He is a social and cultural historian of the Middle East and North Africa. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include the social history of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa. As the Nazarian Center's Postdoctoral Fellow in 2021-22, Tam will promote his research on the social and political history of Egyptian Jews in Israel post-1948, as well as about the close ties of that community to the Yishuv in Israel/Palestine before 1948. Prior to joining the center, Tam was the Israel Institute Visiting Scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He also is a former fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University fo Pennsylvania.

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