The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II

ISBN-13: 9780367226602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Reeva Spector Simon

Opis

Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant, from Morocco to Iran.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION  PART I. PROLOGUE  Chapter 1. The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa on the eve of World War II  Chapter 2. The issue of racism and opposition to Nazism  Chapter 3. German and Italian Middle East policy PART II. THE WAR BEGINS  Chapter 4. The war begins: The war in the Levant  Chapter 5. The threat to Palestine  Chapter 6. Iraq and the Farhud in Baghdad  Chapter 7. Vichy in Syria and Lebanon  Chapter 8. Iran and the "Tehran children"  PART III. THE WAR CONTINUES  Chapter 9. The war continues: The North African campaign  Chapter 10. Egypt and the panic of 1942  Chapter 11. Bombings and deportations in Libya  Chapter 12. Algeria and Operation Torch  Chapter 13. The Nazi SS in Tunisia  Chapter 14. Labor camps and refugees in Morocco  Chapter 15. Turkish neutrality and refugees  PART IV. EPILOGUE  Chapter 16. The war ends: Epilogue

O autorze

Reeva Spector Simon served as Associate Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, and Professor of History at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars and co-editor of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times.