Wartime North Africa

A Documentary History, 1934–1950

Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2022
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3199-1 (ISBN)

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This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentation and political outrage. At others, they are humble, yearning for medicine, a cigarette, or a pair of shoes.

Translated from French, Arabic, North African Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Moroccan Darija, Tamazight (Berber), Italian, and Yiddish, or transcribed from their original English, these writings shed light on how war, occupation, race laws, internment, and Vichy French, Italian fascist, and German Nazi rule were experienced day by day across North Africa. Though some selections are drawn from published books, including memoirs, diaries, and collections of poetry, most have never been published before, nor previously translated into English. These human experiences, combined, make up the history of wartime North Africa.

Aomar Boum is Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century. They are coeditors of The Holocaust and North Africa (Stanford, 2018), a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award.

Introduction: Introduction

1. The rise of fascism and Nazism as seen from North Africa (1934-1940)

2. Race laws, internment, & spoliation (1940-1943)

3. The late and post-war era (1943-1950)

Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2022
Zusatzinfo	19 halftones, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5036-3199-0 / 1503631990
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3199-1 / 9781503631991
Zustand	Neuware