Lectures

Lectures and online resources

Recordings of SHJT lectures, conferences and commemorations, from the most recent to the oldest: videos from the SHJT YouTube channel, audio recordings and texts provided by the speakers.

27 January 2026 — Lecture by Claude Nataf: “The Dreyfus Affair seen from Tunisia”

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7 December 2025 — Commemorative ceremony for the round-up of the Jews of Tunisia of 9 December 1942, at the Mémorial de la Shoah

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5 May 2025 — Lecture by Jean-Marcel Nataf: “On a neglected heritage of the Jews of Tunisia: rabbinic literature”

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8 December 2024 — Round table at the Mémorial de la Shoah: “Committing, surviving and resisting: the Jews of Tunisia in times of peril”

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19 November 2024 — Lecture by Claude Nataf: the clandestine Aliyah of the Jews of Tunisia and the Oslo air disaster

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16 May 2023 — Lecture by Hervé Kabla: “The genealogy of the Jews of Tunisia in the age of the internet and digital technology”

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Posted online on 10 February 2023 — Lecture by Jean-Marcel Nataf

Date of the lecture not specified.

9 February 2023 — Lecture by Martino Oppizzi: “The Livornese Jews of Tunisia and the Fascist regime: a hidden history of collaboration and exclusion”

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11 December 2022 — Round table at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme, for the 80th anniversary of the round-up of the Jews of Tunis

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23 November 2022 — Lecture by Armand Maarek: “The path of the Jews of Tunisia during the colonial period and present-day challenges”

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19 May 2020 — Lecture by Jean-Marcel Nataf: “Books and manuscripts of the Tunisian rabbis: masterpieces to be safeguarded”

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17 to 19 December 2019 — International conference “The Jews of the Maghreb Protectorates and France, from the end of the 18th century to the present day”

At the Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (videos published by the MAHJ).

French influence before the protectorates

The political status of the Jews of Tunisia

Issues of rivalry between the powers

A certain idea of France

The influence of France

Maghrebi Jews in France

From the Maghreb to France

Conclusions

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14 November 2010 — The synagogues of Tunisia

Dominique Jarrassé, on his book « Les synagogues de Tunisie », with testimonies by Claude Nataf and Pierre Besnainou (Akadem).

26 April 2010 — Chantal Bordes-Benayoun

Lecture by Chantal Bordes-Benayoun.

2005 — The independence of Israel seen from Tunisia

By Ariel Danan and Sophie Enos-Attali.

March 2000 — Albert Memmi Day

Message from Chief Rabbi Sirat for the Albert Memmi Day (PDF)