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The sultan's communists : Moroccan Jews and the politics of belonging / Alma Rachel Heckman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heckman, Alma Rachel, author.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Stanford scholarship online.
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Stanford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parti communiste marocain--History--20th century.
- Parti communiste marocain.
- Jewish communists--Morocco--History--20th century.
- Jewish communists.
- Jews--Morocco--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jews.
- Nationalism and communism--Morocco--History--20th century.
- Nationalism and communism.
- Morocco--Politics and government--20th century.
- Morocco.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Structured around the stories of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Abraham Serfaty, Simon Lévy, and Sion Asssidon), 'The Sultan's Communists' examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly independent Morocco. It also explores how Communism facilitated the participation of Moroccan Jews in Morocco's national liberation struggle with roots in the mass upheavals of the interwar and WWII periods. Alma Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and '60s, and how Communist Jews survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION
- FREQUENTLY USED ABBREVIATIONS
- THE SULTAN’S COMMUNISTS: AN INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 CHOICES: FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN INTERWAR MOROCCO
- CHAPTER 2 POSSIBILITIES: WORLD WAR II AND MOROCCAN JEWISH BELONGING
- CHAPTER 3 TACTICS: JEWS AND MOROCCAN INDEPENDENCE
- CHAPTER 4 SPLINTERS: DISILLUSION AND JEWISH POLITICAL LIFE IN THE NEW MOROCCO
- CHAPTER 5 CO-OPTATION: THE MOROCCAN COLD WAR, ISRAEL, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- SCARIFICATION: A CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781503614147
- 150361414X
- OCLC:
- 1206390462
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