I was captivated by the lawsuit over the estate of Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Tunisian Jew who died in Italy in 1873, for a number of reasons. First, it offered a chance to tell a story about North Africa that connected the Maghrib to Europe.
Jessica M. Marglin
Jessica M. Marglin is associate professor of religion, law, and history, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law.