Bio
Boaz Israel Levy researches the history of the modern Mashriq, with a particular focus on South West Asian and North African (SWANA) intellectual networks in the early twentieth century. He studies language ideology, non-Zionist political movements, and Ladino, Arabic, and modern Hebrew print cultures. He has recently taken an interest in key transformations of settler colonialism, migration, and race in Florida. He also studies each of these topics through public history, popular discourse, and historical memory. He is especially interested in how communities employ these histories towards political ends. He has published on the relationship between European Zionists and SWANA Jewish Zionists in Mandate Palestine, the adoption of Ottomanism among SWANA Jewish intellectuals in the Ottoman twentieth century, and the influence of the Nahda on SWANA Jewish intellectuals in late Ottoman Palestine. He currently manages education at The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, using the museum collections to foster bonds between students, educators, scholars, artists, and cultural institutions. 
