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The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging
Contributor(s): Heckman, Alma Rachel (Author)
ISBN: 1503613801     ISBN-13: 9781503613805
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE:   $71.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern - 20th Century
- Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties
- History | Jewish - General
Dewey: 324.264
LCCN: 2020021126
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 344 pages
 
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The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (L on Ren Sultan, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Abraham Serfaty, Simon L vy, and Sion Assidon), Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and '60s, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance.

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.