Séminaire de recherche | Le Mellah d’Elias Suraqui

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Thu Jul 09 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

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Centre Canadien d'Architecture (CCA) | Montréal, QC

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Research Seminar | Elias Suraqui’s Le Mellah
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Le Mellah d’Elias Suraqui : architecture, philanthropie et photographie à Casablanca
Séminaire de recherche avec Jacobé Huet

Ce séminaire porte sur l’album photographique intitulé Le « Mellah » (taudis juif) à Casablanca en 1947. Réalisé et assemblé par Elias Suraqui (1893-1967), architecte et philanthrope juif algérien installé au Maroc, l’album témoigne des difficultés systémiques endurées par les personnes photographiées, notamment des conséquences matérielles de l’oppression coloniale et antisémite. S’appuyant sur des documents issus du fonds Jean-Louis Cohen de la Collection du CCA, Huet considère cet album comme un témoignage visuel important de la vie et de l’architecture dans le quartier juif de Casablanca à la fin des années 1940.

Jacobé Huet est professeure adjointe à l’University of Chicago et historienne de l’architecture moderne, spécialisée dans la Méditerranée transculturelle. Ses écrits ont été publiés ou sont à paraître dans Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, Critical Inquiry, Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World et le Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Huet a obtenu son doctorat en histoire et théorie de l’architecture à la Harvard University en 2022.

Cet événement aura lieu en anglais. Le séminaire est gratuit et ouvert au public, mais le nombre de places étant limité, l'inscription est obligatoire. L’entrée au musée est incluse dans l’inscription.


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Elias Suraqui’s Le Mellah: Architecture, Philanthropy, and Photography in Casablanca
Research Seminar with Jacobé Huet

This seminar focuses on the photographic album titled Le "Mellah" (taudis juif) à Casablanca en 1947. Taken and assembled by Elias Suraqui (1893–1967), an Algerian-Jewish architect and philanthropist who was based in Morocco, the photographic album testifies to the systemic hardship endured by those it depicts, including the material consequences of colonial and antisemitic oppression. Drawing on evidence from the Jean-Louis Cohen fonds in the CCA Collection, Huet positions the album as an important visual testimony of life and architecture in Casablanca’s Jewish quarter during the late 1940s.

Jacobé Huet is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and a historian of modern architecture with a focus on the transcultural Mediterranean. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, Critical Inquiry, Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Huet received her Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from Harvard University in 2022.

This seminar is presented in English. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited, so registration is required. Admission to the museum is included with your registration.


Image :

Elias Suraqui, Le « Mellah » (taudis juifs) à Casablanca en 1947 (détail), tirage gélatino-argentique. Le musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

Elias Suraqui, Le "Mellah" (taudis juifs) à Casablanca en 1947 (detail), gelatin silver print. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris 


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