Colonial and Imperial Legacies, National Transformations: Jewish Minorities in 1950s to 1970s Morocco and Turkey.
This article explores the experiences of Jewish minorities in Morocco and Turkey and examines how these experiences shaped patterns of identification within postcolonial and post-Ottoman contexts. While Jews from the Middle East and North Africa have been widely studied, comparative research across...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 716 - 736 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Jul2026
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