History of Now Lectures Series - Reluctant Neighbors: History of Jews in Palestine and the Levant, 1700-1850
Building E51, Room 095, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free
History at MIT invites you to join us on Monday, November 16th at 5 pm in E51-095 for the third lecture in the History of Now series, featuring Orit Bashkin, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and Director of Graduate Studies, Modern Fields at the University of Chicago. Her talk is titled "Reluctant Neighbors: History of Jews in Palestine and the Levant, 1700-1850." Orit Bashkin Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History Director of Graduate Studies, Modern Fields University of Chicago Monday, November 16, 2026 5-6:30 pm MIT Building E51, Room 095 Public Lectures Dates November 16 Reluctant Neighbors: History of Jews in Palestine and the Levant, 1700-1850 November 19 A Different Critique: MENA Jewish Approaches to Zionism and Imperialism, 1830-1948 About Orit Bashkin Orit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual, social, and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She got her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004), writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since her graduation, she has…