Description The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles..
About the author Aomar Boum is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and Faculty Fellow at the Universit Internationale de Rabat, Morocco.
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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.
They explore how the Holocaust ruptured Muslim-Jewish relations, setting the stage for an entirely new post-war reality.
The essays in this volume reconstruct the implementation of race laws and forced labor across the Maghreb 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.
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.
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.
Description The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story
