Morocco Reimagined
When Moroccan Jews Could Theorize the Moroccan State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22360330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brahim El Guabli (0000-0002-0862-1528, Williams College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-66 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2773-2134 • E-ISSN: 2773-2142 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/27732142-bja00002 |
| OpenAlex | W4381481095 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article rereads the works of Carlos de Nesry and Abraham Serfaty, two important Jewish intellectuals from Morocco, to conceptualize their theorization of state and society in post-1956 Morocco. The article argues that Moroccan Jews’ striving for an inclusive citizenship in and belonging to the independent nation took several forms, but the most salient of which were the two embodied in the work of de Nesry and Serfaty. Although there is a robust literature on Moroccan Jews, these theorizations have not received the scholarly examination they deserve nor have they been put in dialogue with each other to tease out their significance for the situation of Jews in the Moroccan context. This article is an attempt to bring attention to the implications of a locally produced Jewish political theory for the larger Moroccan nation. By examining de Nesry’s and Serfaty’s writing against the background of political repression and increasing authoritarianism, I show how Jewish intellectuals navigated their place in a fast-changing post-independence country, furnishing ideas and projects that could have created a different Morocco
Authoritarianism · Citizenship · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Salient · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · North African History and Literature · Philosophy
International Journal of Heritage Studies
Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth
The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957
De la tradition à la modernité
Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa
Reading for theory in the Moroccan Marxist-Leninist testimonial literature
Moroccan Jewish first-places
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |