Yaron TsurYaron Tsur is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, where he is head of the research unit on the Jews of Islamic lands. He is the founder and academic director of JPress, the Historical Jewish Press website ofthe National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University. His books include The Jews of Casablanca: A Study of Modernization in a Colonial Jewish Society (Hebrew; with H. Hillel, 1995), and A Torn Community: The Jews of Morocco and Nationalism 1943-1954 (Hebrew; 2001), winner of the Zalman Shazar Prize for Research in Jewish History (2002). Read More Read Less