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Dr. Aviad Moreno

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  • Senior Lecturer

    חבר/ת סגל אקדמי בכיר

    The Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism

    Floor 2 Room 217, Sde Boker Campus

    08-659-6975

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About

Aviad Moreno is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on Jewish migration from Muslim countries, through global and comparative perspectives. More recently, his work has focused on the diverse and evolving forms of Israeli migration.

In 2021, Moreno founded the Communities and Mobilities research hub at the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies (MALI) at Ben-Gurion University, which addresses these themes. He serves, among other roles, on the content committee of the ANU Museum of the Jewish People, as an external member of the Royal Spanish Academy, and as a lead of the Diversifying the Israeli Diaspora research group at Brandeis University. Previously, he was part of the development team of the Historical Jewish Press digitization project, and he has held research fellowships at the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, Tel Aviv University, the University of Florida, and Brandeis University.

His work has been recognized with several fellowships and awards, including the Alon Fellowship (Israeli Council for Higher Education), the Toldano Prize, the Ben-Halpern Prize (Association for Israel Studies), the Gad Barzilai Prize (AIS), and the Distinguished Early Career Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. His books have also received significant recognition, including the National Jewish Book Award, the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) Book Award, the Edith and Eric Siday Grant for Book Publication, and the Mifal HaPais grant for Hebrew-language books.

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Courses

"Israel"/"Diaspora": Mutual Images in Historical and Contemporary Contexts
Migration in Israeli Contexts
Jews in Morocco, Moroccans in Israel: History and Historiography
Israel in the Jewish World
Introduction to North Africa during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Academic Learning Skills
Introduction to Islam
Introduction to Middle East History from Muhammad to the Ottoman Empire

Publications

Authored Books
2024 ? Moreno, Aviad. Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community. Indiana University Press.
https://iupress.org/9780253069672/entwined-homelands-empowered-diasporas/

2015 ? Moreno, Aviad. Europe from Morocco: The Minutes of the Leadership of Tangier?s Jewish Community (the Junta), 1860?1864 [אירופה ממרוקו: הפרוטוקולים של הנהגת קהילת יהודי טנג'יר (החונטה), 1864?1860]. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute.https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH990038291420205171/NLI


Edited Volumes & Special Issues
2025, Rossetto, Piera, Hadas Shabat-Nadir, and Aviad Moreno (eds.). Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Masculinities: Bodies of Knowledge across Generations and Geographies. Edizioni Ca? Foscari ? Venice University Press.
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/libri/979-12-5742-005-5/middle-eastern-and-north-african-jewish-masculinit/

2025, Moreno, Aviad, Piera Rossetto, and Emir Galilee (guest eds.). Special issue: (E)motional Maps: Affective Geographies among Jewish Migrants from North Africa and the Middle East, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 27 (2025).https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/emotional-maps-affective-geographies-among-jewish-migrants-from-north-africa-and-the-middle-east
2021 ? מורנו, אביעד; גרבר, נח; מאיר-גליצנשטיין, אסתר; שיף, עופר (עורכים). ההיסטוריה הארוכה של המזרחים: כיוונים חדשים בחקר יהודי ארצות האסלאם (בהוקרה לירון צור). קריית שדה?בוקר: מכון בן-גוריון לחקר ישראל והציונות.
https://kotar.cet.ac.il/kotarapp/index/Book.aspx?nBookID=108963763

(in Press) ? Moreno, Aviad (ed.). Why did the Jews Leave? A Globalized Perspective on Jewish Emigration from Arab Countries (in Arabic). Maktabat Kul Shay and Ben-Gurion University Press.

Articles
2025, Gerber, Noah S., and Aviad Moreno. ?The Trajectories of Separation: Transatlantic Networks, Disciplinary Boundaries, and the Isolated Histories of Mizrahim.? AJS Review 49, no. 2 (2025): 279?308. https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2025.a974638

2025, Moreno, Aviad. ?There?s No Home Like Place: Homogenizing Nostalgia Among Moroccan Jews in Venezuela.? Jewish History 39, no. 1?2 (2025): 111?143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10835-025-09476-6
2025, Moreno, Aviad. ?Mapping Moral Paths: The Spiritual Geography of Moroccan Rabbi Gabriel Elgrabli.? Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 27 (2025): 83?116. https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/15949

2024, Moreno, Aviad, and Tamir Karkason. ?The Jewish ?East? and its Restricted Agencies.? Israel Studies 29, no. 1 (2024): 135?147. https://doi.org/10.2979/is.00013

2024, Cohen, Angy, and Aviad Moreno. ?Selkea! Memories of Eating Non-Kosher Food among the Spanish?Moroccan Jewish Diaspora in Israel. Religions 15, no. 10 (2024): 1171. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15101171
2024, Moreno, Aviad. ?Far East? Legacies and the Normalization ofNon-Ashkenazi? Histories in Israel.? Jewish Quarterly Review 114, no. 4 (2024): 493-499. https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2024.a944937

2024, Moreno, Aviad, and Tamir Karkason. ?The Struggle for Ethnic Representation Among Turkish Jews in Early Statehood Israel.? Iyunim 41 (2024): 228?253.
https://www.bgu.ac.il/media/ziufw12x/קרקסון-ומורנו.pdf
2023, Moreno, Aviad, and Tamir Karkason. ?A Transnational Millet in the Jewish State: a Judeo-Spanish Diaspora Between Turkey and Israel, 1948?1958.? Nations and Nationalism 29, no. 3 (2023): 1093?1111. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12959
2023, Moreno, Aviad, and Tamir Karkason. ?Repositioning Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Community Resilience Strategies among the Non-migratory Segment of Turkish Jewry.? Societies 13, no. 7 (2023): 161. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13070161
2023, Moreno, Aviad, and Haim Bitton. The Moroccan Yizkor Book: Holocaust Memory, Intra-Jewish Marginalization, and Communal Empowerment in Israel.? Diaspora 23, no. 2 (2023): 261?283. https://doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.23.2.2023.08.09

2023, Shukrun, Roy, and Aviad Moreno.Rethinking Moroccan Transnationalism: Sephardism, Decolonization, and Activism Between Israel and Montreal.? American Jewish History 107, no. 2/3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2023.a920593
2023, Moreno, Aviad. ?Jewish Repatriation in a Global Historical Context? [השיבה היהודית בהקשר היסטורי עולמי]. In October Rifts [שברי אוקטובר], Hazman Hazeh [הזמן הזה], November 2023. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
https://hazmanhazeh.org.il/october_rifts/
2022, Moreno, Aviad. ?Expanding the Dimensions of Moroccan (Jewish) Migration: Perspectives from Venezuela.? Journal of North African Studies (2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2022.2088522

2021 ? Moreno, Aviad. ?Remapping ?Tradition?: Community Formation and Spatiocultural Mobility Among Jews in Colonial Northern Morocco.? Jewish Culture and History 22, no. 4 (2021): 348?400. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2021.1993542

2020, Moreno, Aviad. ?Beyond the Nation-state: A Network Analysis of Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco to Israel.? International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, no. 1 (2020): 1?21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000916

2020, Moreno, Aviad. ?Hisul, ?Aqira, Hagira: The Semantics of Jewish Migration from Arab Countries in Israel?s Academic and Popular Discourses? [חיסול, עקירה, הגירה: על הסמנטיקה של ה'עליות' מארצות ערב בשיח האקדמי והציבורי בישראל]. Zion 85, no. 1?4 (2020): 107?125.
2019, Moreno, Aviad. ?The Ingathering of the Jewish (Moroccan) Diaspora: Zionism and Global Hometown Awareness among Spanish-Moroccan Jews in Israel.? European Judaism 52, no. 2 (2019): 143?155. https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2019.520211

2017, Cohen, Angy, and Aviad Moreno. ?Revisiting Morocco from Israel and Argentina: Contrasting Narratives about the ?Trip Back? Among Jewish Immigrants from Northern Morocco.? Journal of Jewish Identities 10, no. 2 (2017): 173?197. https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2017.0009

2016, Moreno, Aviad. ?Moroccan Jewish Emigration to Latin America: the State of Research and New Directions.? Hesperis-Tamuda 51, no. 2 (2016): 123?143.
https://www.hesperis-tamuda.com/Downloads/2010-2019/2016/fascicule-2/6.pdf
2015, Moreno, Aviad. ??Inappropriate? Voices from the Past: Contextualizing Narratives from the First Group Tour of Olim from Northern Morocco to their Former Hometowns.? European Journal of Jewish Studies 9 (2015): 52-68. https://doi.org/10.1163/1872471X-12341272

2015, Moreno, Aviad. ?An Insight into the Course of European-Oriented Modernization among Oriental Jewries: the Minute Book of the Junta of Tangier.? El Prezente: Studies in Sephardic Culture 8?9 (2015): 95?120.
https://benyehuda.org/lexicon/99995-files/99995095/99995095-015/99995095-015-lat-095-120.pdf
2012, Moreno, Aviad. ?De-Westernizing Morocco: Pre-Migration Colonial History and the Ethnic-Oriented Self-Representation of Tangier?s Natives in Israel.? Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 4 (2012): 67?85. https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/795

Additional publications:
(forthcoming) ? Moreno, Aviad. ?What is your opinion about modern dancing? Women in Northern Moroccan Leisure Culture.? In Jewish Women and Gender in Global Perspective, edited by Dina Danon, Elissa Bemporad, Federica Francesconi, and Elizabeth Imber. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2025, Moreno, Aviad. ?NO HAY HOGAR COMO EL LUGAR: homogeneizaci?n de la nostalgia entre los jud?os marroqu?es en Venezuela.? Magu?n-Escudo 188 (2025).
https://cesc.com.ve/files/magazine/MAGUEN188.pdf
2025, Moreno, Aviad, and Ani Avetisyan. ?A Multinational Exodus from Egypt: Armenians and Jews ?Returning? to the Homeland or Migrating Westward? [יציאת מצרים רב?לאומית: ארמנים ויהודים ?שבים? למולדת או מהגרים למערב]. ?Et-Mol 292 (2025): 19?23.
https://www.ybz.org.il/product/%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A8%D7%91-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA/
2024 ? Moreno, Aviad. ?Del barrio de Musrara a Montreal: las historias interconectadas de las comunidades mizraj?es y sefard?es.? Revista Magu?n-Escudo 187 (2024): 74-87.
https://cesc.com.ve/files/magazine/MAGUEN187.pdf
2024, Moreno, Aviad. ?Marrocos na Am?rica Latina, Am?rica Latina no Marrocos: O papel dos judeus na constru??o de conex?es transregionais.? In Universo Sefarad: Hist?ria, Mem?ria, Tradi??o e Cultura, edited by Elias Salgado and Regina Igel, 152?188. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Talu Cultural, 2024.
https://amazoniajudaica.com/index.php/admjk/article/view/1568/1168
2023, Moreno, Aviad. Jewish Repatriation in a Global Historical Context [השיבה היהודית בהקשר היסטורי עולמי]. In October Rifts [שברי אוקטובר], Hazman Hazeh [הזמן הזה], November 2023. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
https://hazmanhazeh.org.il/october_rifts/
2023, Moreno, Aviad. ?Redibujar el Mapa de la «Tradici?n»: formaci?n comunitaria y espacio cultural entre los jud?os del norte de Marruecos colonial.? Magu?n-Escudo 186 (2023): 51-73.
https://cesc.com.ve/files/magazine/MAGUEN186.pdf
2022 ? Moreno, Aviad. ?La Libert?/El Horria.? Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill), 2022.
https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EJIO/SIM-001343.xml
2022 ? Moreno, Aviad. ?Benaioun (Ben Ayoun), Salomon.? Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill), 2022.
https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EJIO/SIM-000176.xml
2022, Karkason, Tamir, and Aviad Moreno. ?Protest, Patronage, and Inter-Jewish Solidarity: North African Jews in Israel's Ladino Press in the Early 1950s? [Hebrew]. ?Et-Mol 279 (2022): 30?33.
https://www.ybz.org.il/product/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%90%D7%94-%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%96-%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%AA/
2022, Moreno, Aviad. ?Telling Your Story: Reclaiming Sephardi Mizrahi History.? Sephardi Ideas Monthly (2022).
https://americansephardi.org/news/simfeb2022/
2022, Moreno, Aviad. ?Os Panteras Negras Israelenses.? In Amaz?nia Judaica 20 anos depois: Hist?ria, Mem?ria, Tradi??o e Cultura, 13?24. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Talu Cultural, 2022.
https://amazoniajudaica.com/index.php/admjk/article/view/1174/777
2022, Dubnov, Arie, and Aviad Moreno. ?Anu Museum and the Americanization of Jewish History? [מוזיאון 'אנו' והאמריקניזציה של ההיסטוריה היהודית]. Hazman Hazeh 4 (2022).
https://hazmanhazeh.org.il/anu/
2021, Moreno, Aviad. ?Musrara?Montreal? [מוסררה?מונטריאול]. Hazman Hazeh (2021).
https://hazmanhazeh.org.il/musrara-montreal/
2021 , Moreno, Aviad. Book Review of Devi Mays, Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2020). AJS Review 45, no. 2 (2021): 496?498.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0364009421000504
2021, Moreno, Aviad. ?From Israel's Black Panthers Protest to a Transnational MENA Jewish Solidarity.? AJS Perspectives (2021).
https://perspectives.ajsnet.org/the-protest-issue/from-israels-black-panthers-protest-to-a-transnational-mena-jewish-solidarity/
2020, Moreno, Aviad. ?A View From Tangier: Inner Dynamics of Moroccan Jewish Modernity.? HaSepharadi (2020).
https://hasepharadi.com/2020/02/16/a-view-from-tangier-inner-dynamics-of-moroccan-jewish-modernity/
2019 , Moreno, Aviad. ?Repensar la aliya desde los paises arabes y musulmanes: el caso de Tanger.? Revista Magu?n-Escudo 181 (2019): 36?38.
https://cesc.com.ve/files/magazine/FDEF-REV.%20MAGUEN%20181.pdf
2016, Guedj, David, Tamir Karkason, and Aviad Moreno. The Bitton Committee: a view from within? [Hebrew]. Haaretz (22 July 2016).
https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/2016-07-22/ty-article/.premium/0000017f-e2c4-d9aa-afff-fbdc02170000
2010, Moreno, Aviad. ?Jud?os de Marruecos, Int?rpretes de Europa, In Libro de Actas de la Junta Selecta de la Cumunidad Hebrea de Tanger, 1860?1883: Nacimiento y Desarollo de Una Comunidad Organizada, edited by G. Pimienta and S. S. Pimienta, 13?21. Paris?Jerusalem: Jem y Erez Editores, 2010.
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