Round table of 8 December 2024: ENLISTING, SURVIVING AND RESISTING – THE JEWS OF TUNISIA IN TIMES OF PERIL
On 8 December 2024, a round table was held at the Mémorial de la Shoah, devoted to the experiences of the Jews of Tunisia during the Second World War, moderated by Claude Nataf.
ENGAGING, SURVIVING AND RESISTING: THE JEWS OF TUNISIA IN THE HOUR OF PERIL
With the participation of:
- Jérémy Guedj (Université Côte d’Azur): The Jews of Tunisia facing fascisms in the 1930s
- Marie-Anne Guez: 1943-1945: The participation of the Jews of Tunisia in the ranks of the Free French Forces
- Martino Oppizzi: Departures, expulsions and deportations: emigration trajectories of the Italian Jews of Tunisia during the Second World War
The Mémorial de la Shoah has made the recording of this lecture available to us, and you can find all the discussions below.
SHJT speakers
Claude Nataf
Founding President
Biography
Top of his class at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (1967), postgraduate diploma (DEA) in twentieth-century history from the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, vice-president of the Commission française des archives juives, founding president of the Society for the History of the Jews of Tunisia, departmental delegate of the French national education system
Jérémy Guedj
President
Biography
PhD in history, lecturer (maître de conférences) in contemporary history at the University of Nice and at the IEP, member of the Centre de la Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine (CMMC), editor-in-chief of the Cahiers de la Méditerranée
Martino Oppizzi
Board member
Biography
PhD in history, postdoctoral researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (IHTP, UMR 8244), member of the Parimix team (Centre Roland Mousnier, UMR 8596), founding member of the ALARMER society. Since 2013 he has been working on the Italian Jewish community of Tunisia.
