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SUMMARY:2026 Naamani Memorial Jewish Culture Event
CONTACT:Diana Wilder\, 5029191965\, email:dmwild02@louisville.edu
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2026 Naamani Memorial Jewish Culture Eve
 nt: \n\nProfessor Adam Rovner\n\nThe Jew Who Would Be King: \n\n    Th
 e True Story of a Jewish Zulu Chieftain in the 19th Century\n\n \n\nSunda
 y, April 19, at 2:00-3:30 p.m.\n\nThe Susan and William Yarmuth Jewish Stu
 dies Reading Room\n\nEkstrom Library, 3rd Floor, University of Louisville
                             \n\nThe Jew Who Wou
 ld Be King tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs—a nineteenth-century Bri
 tish Jew who helped establish the Zulu kingdom only to become a ruthless w
 arlord and slaveholder. Isaacs’ thrilling journey begins with his shipwr
 eck on the shores of Zululand and proceeds to ports across West Africa, in
 cluding Freetown, Sierra Leone. There, tasked by the colonial governor to 
 end the local slave trade, Isaacs brokered deals that reinforced his own p
 ower. Through meticulous archival research in England, Sierra Leone, South
  Africa, and St. Helena, as well as the author’s own travels to the remn
 ants of Isaacs’ island stronghold in Guinea, Rovner brings this complex 
 figure to life. Isaacs’ story reveals the harsh realities and moral ambi
 guities of colonial power and exposes the entangled forces of Jewish emanc
 ipation and antisemitism, slavery and abolition, the stark dichotomies of 
 civilization and “savagery,” and the creation of whiteness versus Blac
 kness. This exciting historical study has been hailed as “a dazzling wor
 k of research, written with the flair of a novel” and praised for its "e
 vocative writing and scrupulous scholarship which reveal a world that will
  be new, even to those familiar with colonial history."\n\n 
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URL:https://events.stage.louisville.edu/events/2026-naamani-memorial-jewish
 -culture-event/2026-04-19
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