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(Hardback)

By: Judith Roumani

ISBN: 9781793620095
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.


(Hardback)

By: Marc Eliany

ISBN: 9781793644657
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This annotated collection of simple yet witty Jewish Moroccan folk tales presents the popular fictional hero Seha as both sage and clown, conveying deeply engrained Jewish values. The authors also provide socio-historical information that contextualizes the tales in the process of social change and modernization in Morocco.


(Hardback)

By: Joseph Chetrit

ISBN: 9781793624925
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Jews and Muslims of Morocco collects accounts of the intersecting worlds and emergent shared customs and culture, suggesting that the unique atmosphere in Morocco allowed for Rabbinic empowerment and a more practical approach to halakhah.


(Paperback)

By: Judith Roumani

ISBN: 9781793629814
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.