Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History

03/09/2025

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The study of the Shoah and its impact on Jewish communities under colonial rule in Fascist Italy and Vichy France has witnessed significant scholarly development in recent years. Whereas in the past Jews from these territories were largely absent from mainstream Holocaust narratives, their experienc...

06/08/2025

We just published our latest issue, available in open access!

(𝐄)𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐬: 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭
edited by Piera Rossetto, Aviad Moreno and Emir Galilee

From the introduction:

The migration of Jews from Muslim-majority countries between the 1940s and the 1970s—the departure of roughly 900,000 individuals from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) lands—was one of the most significant demographic transformations in modern Jewish history. Migration is rarely just the movement of a population across space; it is almost always, especially when occurring on a massive scale, a disruption, a recalibration, and a profound reimagining of the self and the migrating group in relation to space. As such, it is deeply emotional and the cartographies it generates are encoded with affect.

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It was not until recent decades that scholars began to utterly interrogate the multiplicity of Jewish migration experiences and examine how emotions—particularly nostalgia, fear, pride, and shame—shaped the ways Jews navigated their exits, remembered their pasts, and redrew their affective geographies. By understanding the emotional charge embedded in these migrations, as we hope to show in this issue, we obtain an essential point of departure for rethinking how geography is imagined, felt, and remembered by displaced populations.

Read the complete issue here: https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it

Ph | Collage by Zohar Gannot, 2025