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Memories of absence : how Muslims remember Jews in Morocco /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boum, Aomar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.