{"product_id":"moroccan-jews-in-france-and-yolande-cohen-9780776645155","title":"Moroccan Jews in France and Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this volume are gathered articles published by Yolande Cohen and her team, offering for a first time a global perspective on Moroccan Jews post-colonial migrations to France and Canada. Having herself migrated from Morocco to Montreal, she is uniquely attuned to the difficulties of living through such a massive exile. Why did they leave Morocco? When did this migration happen? And how can we analyze their journey? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe explores the many vivid memories of departures that she encountered when collecting oral histories of migrants both in France and in Qu?bec. She finds the deep attachment some of them have to their King and to Morocco, making it an exception in the Arab Muslim world. The main disruptive forces in the displacement of these populations were French colonialism and its emancipatory promises and Zionism, both messianic and modern. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the establishment of the State of Israel and the subsequent Israel-Arab wars, most of them joined in the mass exodus of Jews from Arab lands, leaving their countries to go to Israel. With the ending of the French colonial empire and the decolonization process, a minority of westernized Jews went to France and to Canada, with the help of transnational Jewish organizations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Montr?al, a city with a strong multi-ethnic Jewish Community, those migrants understood the crucial aspect of French language as an essential factor of integration. Yet, analyzing their trajectories and the words they used to represent their exile, allows us to understand the underlying traumas of their exiles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yolande Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0776645153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780776645155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Ottawa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Yolande Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46721479344383,"sku":"9780776645155","price":61.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2798a95-0a75-485b-a325-526d93f8397a.jpg?v=1742752990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moroccan-jews-in-france-and-yolande-cohen-9780776645155","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}