Memories of Absence : How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco
There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. 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. Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish population have changed over the
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Acknowledgments; Prologue: "Ariel Sharon" in the Sahara; Introduction; 1. Writing the Periphery: Colonial Narratives of Moroccan Jewish Hinterlands; 2. Outside the Mellah: Market, Law, and Muslim-Jewish Encounters; 3. Inside the Mellah:Education and the Creation of a Saharan Jewish Center; 4. "Little Jerusalems" Without Jews: Muslim Memories of Jewish Anxieties and Emigration; 5. Shadow Citizens: Jews in Independent Morocco; 6. Between Hearsay, Jokes, and the Internet:Youth Debate Jewish Morocco; Conclusion; Epilogue: Performing Interfaith Dialogue. Methodological Appendix: Generations, Cohorts, Schemas, and Longitudinal MemoriesNotes; References; Index
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