Emily Benichou Gottreich

Jewish Morocco (eBook, PDF)

A History from Pre-Islamic to Postcolonial Times

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Gottreich examines the history of Jews in Morocco from the pre-Islamic period to post-colonial times, drawing on newly acquired evidence from archival materials in Rabat. Providing an important reassessment of the impact of the French protectorate over Morocco, the author overturns widely accepted views on Jews' participation in Moroccan nationalism - an issue often marginalized by both Zionist and Arab nationalist narratives - and breaks new ground in her analysis of Jewish involvement in the istiqlal and its aftermath. Fitting into a growing body of scholarship that consciously strives to integrate Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, Emily Gottreich here provides an original perspective by placing pressing issues in contemporary Moroccan society into their historical, and in their Jewish, contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838603618
• Artikelnr.: 58606230

Autorenporträt

Emily Benichou Gottreich is an Adjunct Professor in Global Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also former President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). She holds a PhD from Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter One: Malikism Law and Religion. Malikism as law of the land today
Jews in pre-Islamic Morocco
Islamic conquests
conversion
Jews under Islamic rule
adoption of Malikism and the development of legal plurality
Maimonides in Fez. Chapter Two: The Berber Question Ethnicity. Amazigh rights movement in context of Arab spring
Rise of Berber dynasties (Almoravids
Almohads
Marinids)
development of Berber Islam and Berber Judaism
language issues in Morocco
Goulmima carnival
Amazigh cultural movement
Berber Philo-Semitism and Pro-Israel stance today Chapter Three: Sharifism Power and Authority. Rise of the Moroccan State
Sa'dis and 'Alawis
Sharifism
Mystical movments (Sufism
zawiyas
and Sabbateanism)
arrival and integration of the Sephardim
trade
diplomacy. Chapter Four: Colonialism Culture. Jews and the colonial project
mission civilisatrice
the Alliance Israélite Universelle
protégé system
migration and urbanization
the last mellahs
cultural dislocation Chapter Five: Independence Politics. Anti-colonial movement
communists
the istiqlal party
wifaq
independence
zionism
emigration
Chapter Six: Moroccan Jews and Moroccan Judaism in the Post-Modern Era Time and Space. Jews in the era of Hassan II and Mohammed VI
les années du plomb
Avraham Sarfaty and Sion Assidon
pilgrimage
Peace Movement
Moroccan Jews abroad
Israeli Black Panthers
returnees
representations in novels and films
nostalgia Conclusion