Memories of Absence - How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Hardcover)

There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 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. Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish population have changed over the decades, and a new debate has emerged at the center of the Moroccan nation: Where does the Jew fit in the context of an Arab and Islamic monarchy? Can Jews simultaneously be Moroccans and Zionists? Drawing on oral testimony and stories, on rumor and humor, Aomar Boum examines the strong shift in opinion and attitude over the generations and increasingly anti-Semitic beliefs in younger people, whose only exposure to Jews has been through international media and national memory.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	October 2013
Authors:	Aomar Boum
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-8699-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-8047-8699-2
Barcode:	9780804786997

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