The figures at the center of Heckman's narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism, Arab nationalism, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that, upon independence from France and Spain in 1956, allied itself with the United States (and, more quietly, Israel) during the Cold War, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan's Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.
The figures at the center of Heckman's narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism, Arab nationalism, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that, upon independence from France and Spain in 1956, allied itself with the United States (and, more quietly, Israel) during the Cold War, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan's Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging
344The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging
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ISBN-13: | 9781503613805 |
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Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
Publication date: | 11/24/2020 |
Series: | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
Pages: | 344 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |