Memories of absence : how Muslims remember Jews in Morocco / Aomar Boum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boum, Aomar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Morocco--Public opinion.

Jews.

Muslims--Morocco--Attitudes.

Muslims.

Collective memory--Morocco.

Collective memory.

Public opinion--Morocco.

Public opinion.

Morocco--Ethnic relations--History.

Morocco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : 1 map (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Once a thriving community, by the late 1980's, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence, and a growing dismay over the Palestinian conflict. 'Memories of Absence' investigates how four successive generations remember the lost Jewish community.

Contents:

Writing the periphery : colonial narratives of Moroccan Jewish hinterlands

Outside the mellah : market, law, and Muslim-Jewish encounters

Inside the mellah : education and the creation of a Saharan Jewish center

"Little Jerusalems" without Jews : Muslim memories of Jewish anxieties and emigration

Shadow citizens : Jews in independent Morocco

Between hearsay, jokes, and the Internet : youth debate Jewish Morocco.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804788519

0804788510

OCLC:

857365061