The Holocaust and North Africa / edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boum, Aomar, editor.

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Africa, North.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Persecutions--Africa, North--History.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Africa, North--History.

Antisemitism.

World War, 1939-1945--Africa, North.

World War, 1939-1945.

Collective memory--Africa, North.

Collective memory.

Jews--Persecutions.

History.

North Africa.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory--Muslim as well as Jewish--in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study of the unfolding events in North Africa, pushing at the boundaries of Holocaust Studies and North African Studies, and suggesting, powerfully, that neither is complete without the other. The essays in this volume reconstruct the implementation of race laws and forced labor across the Maghreb during World War II and consider the Holocaust as a North African local affair, which took diverse form from town to town and city to city. They explore how the Holocaust ruptured Muslim-Jewish relations, setting the stage for an entirely new post-war reality. Commentaries by leading scholars of Holocaust history complete the picture, reflecting on why the history of the Holocaust and North Africa has been so widely ignored--and what we have to gain by understanding it in all its nuances. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Contents:

Between metropole and French North Africa : Vichy's anti-Semitic legislation and colonialism's racial hierarchies / Daniel J. Schroeter

The persecution of the Jews in Libya between 1938 and 1945 : an Italian affair? / Jens Hoppe

The implementation of anti-Jewish laws in French West Africa : a reflection of Vichy anti-Semitic obsession / Ruth Ginio

"Other places of confinement" : Bedeau internment camp for Algerian Jewish soldiers / Susan Slyomovics

Blessing of the bled : rural Moroccan Jewry during World War II / Aomar Boum and Mohammed Hatimi

À la recherche de Vichy : the Commissariat général aux questions juives and the implementation of the Statut des juifs in Tunisia / Daniel Lee

Eyewitness Djelfa : daily life in a Saharan Vichy labor camp / Aomar Boum

The ethics and aesthetics of restraint : Judeo-Tunisian narratives of occupation / Lia Brozgal

Fissures and fusions : Moroccan Jewish communists and World War II / Alma Heckman

Re-centering the Holocaust (again) / Omer Bartov

Paradigms and differences / Susan Rubin Suleiman

Sephardim and Holocaust historiography / Susan Gilson Miller

Stages in Jewish historiography and collective memory / Haim Saadoun

A memory that is not one / Michael Rothberg

Holocaust and North Africa / Todd Presner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Holocaust and North Africa.

ISBN:

9781503605435

1503605434

9781503607057

1503607054

OCLC:

1022991574