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Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Morocco: A History of a Minority Community

Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Morocco: A History of a Minority Community

Hissong, Kristin

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General Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0755639367
ISBN13: 9780755639366
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 21 2022
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Moroccan Jews can trace their heritage in Morocco back 2000 years. In French Protectorate Morocco (1912-56) there was a community of over 200,000 Jews, but today only a small minority remains.
This book writes Morocco's rich Jewish heritage back into the protectorate period. The book explains why, in the years leading to independence, the country came to construct a national identity that centered on the Arab-Islamic notions of its past and present at the expense of its Jewish history and community. The book provides analysis of the competing nationalist narratives that played such a large part in the making of Morocco's identity at this time: French cultural-linguistic assimilation, Political Zionism, and Moroccan nationalism. It then explains why the small Jewish community now living in Morocco has become a source of national pride.

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