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The Holocaust and North Africa

The Holocaust and North Africa

by Aomar Boum (Author), Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Author)

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    Illustrated 2018

    $133.44
Synopsis

The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory-Muslim as well as Jewish-in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study of the unfolding events in North Africa, pushing at the boundaries of Holocaust Studies and North African Studies, and suggesting, powerfully, that neither is complete without the other.

The essays in this volume reconstruct the implementation of race laws and forced labor across the Maghrib during World War II and consider the Holocaust as a North African local affair, which took diverse form from town to town and city to city. They explore how the Holocaust ruptured Muslim-Jewish relations, setting the stage for an entirely new post-war reality. Commentaries by leading scholars of Holocaust history complete the picture, reflecting on why the history of the Holocaust and North Africa has been so widely ignored-and what we have to gain by understanding it in all its nuances.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1503605434
ISBN 13: 9781503605435

Media Reviews
The Holocaust and North Africa extends the geographical and historical horizons of Holocaust studies. It challenges a Eurocentric focus, exploring the diverse persecution experiences and memories of Jews in North and West Africa, and raises interesting questions about the interdependencies of Nazi, Vichy, and Fascist policies with colonial practices. -- Wolf Gruner, Founding Director * USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research *
This fascinating and original volume profoundly challenges inherited understandings of the Holocaust as a purely European phenomenon. Offering far-ranging original research, the contributors illustrate how one of modernity's defining horrors played out in North Africa. In so doing, they convincingly show that Vichy's race laws, anti-Semitic agitation, and deportations represented ruptures-but also continuities-with North Africa's colonial order. -- Joshua Schreier * Vassar College *
Author Bio
Aomar Boum is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and Faculty Fellow at the Universite Internationale de Rabat, Morocco.Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.