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Memories of absence : how Muslims remember Jews in Morocco / Aomar Boum

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Boum, Aomar
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages .)
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English.
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.
Summary
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.
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0804788510 (electronic bk.)
9780804788519 (electronic bk.)
9780804786997 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804786992 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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