Return to Casablanca: Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist

by André Lévy

Book Overview

In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andr Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history--from the Jewish Enlightenment and the impending colonialism of the late nineteenth century to today's modern Arab state--Levy paints a rich portrait of two communities pressed together, of the tremendous mobility that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022629255X
• ISBN13: 9780226292557
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 10.0"