North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century written by Michael M. Laskier and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political history of North African Jewry, tracing the exposure of three Third World Jewish communities to modernization and to relations with the Muslims and European settlers. Laskier draws on a wide range of archives in Israel, Europe, and the US, and on personal interviews with former community leaders, Maghribi Zionists, and Jewish outsiders who lived and worked among North Africa's Jews to recreate the experiences and development of these communities. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR