Sultan''s Communists Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging

"A history of Jews in Morocco from the 1930s through the 1970s, this book traces how Jewish communists went from being outsiders (even pariahs) vis-áa-vis the Makhzan to being embraced as the "Sultan's communists." Her narrative offers welcome nuance to our understanding of how Jews in Morocco were and are viewed--by their non-Jewish neighbors, by the Moroccan government, by American Jewish organizations, and even by tourists and scholars"--

About the author

Alma Rachel Heckman is Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Product details

• Authors: Alma Heckman, Alma Rachel Heckman
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.11.2020
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)
• EAN: 9781503613805
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1380-5
• Pages: 344
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His