Yigal S. Nizri

My research focus on the cultures and histories of Arabic-speaking Jews and Mizrahi history in Israel. Specifically, my work explores the emergence of a Jewish Moroccan scribal culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within the context of trans-Mediterranean Maghribi-Jewish diasporic networks. My research contributions have been featured in various volumes, including The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives (2018), From Something to Nothing: Jewish Mysticism in Contemporary Canadian Jewish Studies (2019), and Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures (2020). Moreover, I have contributed to Hebrew publications focusing on visual art, cinema, foodways, and language. Notably, in 2004, I published an edited volume in Hebrew titled Eastern Appearance: A Present that Stirs in the Thickets of its Arab Past. The essays were devoted to the cultural politics of Mizrahim from the 1950s through the 2000s, shedding light on the complex dynamics and transformations experienced by Mizrahi communities during that period.