the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary and recently in NYU. His Torn Community was awarded the Shazar prize in 2002 and the Toledano prize a year later. From the municipality of Paris Tsur received a medal honoring his efforts in establishing ties between Israeli and Tunisian historians. Books The Jews of Casablance: A Study of Modernization in a Colonial Jewish Society,The Open University Press, Tel Aviv 1995 (Hebrew. in collaboration with H. Hillel). A Torn Community: The Jews of Morocco and Nationalism 1943–1954, Am Oved,Tel Aviv, 2001. (Hebrew) Notables and other Jews in the Ottoman Middle East 1759–1830, Mossad Bialik, Jerusalem 2016 (Hebrew) References External links Personal site of Prof. Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv University Yaron Tsur, The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU The Jews Of Islamic Countries Archiving Project Jpress, Jewish historical Press Website About Historical Jewish Press Website on Matanel Foundation Israeli historians Academic staff of the Open University of Israel Israeli people of German-Jewish descent Israeli people of Yemeni-Jewish descent 1948 births Living people