Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,2 (2019) 227-244
Keywords:
Jewish women Societies, etc.
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Jewish women Political activity
Abstract:
The goal of this paper is to study Jewish participation in intercommunal - Muslim, Jewish, Christian - Moroccan women's organizations that promoted national Moroccan socio-political aims, and to analyze their origins, effects, demise and memory. The paper focuses on a unique organization- "Union des Femmes marocaines" (Union of Moroccan Women) - which, for almost ten years during the colonial period, had carried out intercommunal work for shared Moroccan causes. The study reveals that during the period that intercommunal women's associations operated (1943-1952), they were first French-oriented and dealt with issues considered, from a gendered perspective, to be within women's domain (i.e. helping the poor and needy, doing charity, fighting for women's education), but from 1947, they "Moroccanized" and worked towards general political Moroccan aims. The paper refers to a relatively unknown chapter in Moroccan history, and opens a new perspective of the Moroccan identity of Jews before their massive emigration from the country.
DOI:
10.1080/14725886.2019.1593706
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