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"--

List of contents

The Sultan's Communists: An Introduction

1. Choices: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Interwar Morocco

2. Possibilities: World War II and Moroccan Jewish Belonging

3. Tactics: Jews and Moroccan Independence

4. Splinters: Disillusion and Jewish Political Life in the New Morocco

5. Co-optation: The Moroccan Cold War, Israel, and Human Rights

Scarification: A Conclusion

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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781503613805
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1380-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous