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Lawrence Rosen

Lawrence Rosen is William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor emeritus of law at Columbia Law School. His books include The Justice of Islam, The Culture of Islam, and Varieties of Muslim Experience (University of Chicago Press).

Spring 2022

Memories of Morocco

By: Lawrence Rosen

In the 1940s Moroccan Jews were still sacrificing a bull on the Sultan’s doorstep. There was a deep cultural symbiosis of Jews and Muslims in North Africa.

Spring 2019

Victim Enough? The Jews of North Africa During the Holocaust

By: Lawrence Rosen

As the Tunisian Jewish novelist Albert Memmi wrote, “I am not enough of a victim; that is why my conscience is tortured.” Must the Jews of North Africa, as contributor Lia Brozgal puts it, write “a history that competes with a more catastrophic one, or be written out of history?”