Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein knew the wartime experiences of North African Jews are often overlooked in Holocaust history, so they decided to write a book about it. The National Museum of American Jewish History hosted a webinar about the book, “The Holocaust in North Africa,” on April 9. Boum, associate professor of anthropology at UCLA, said most North African countries were under the colonial rule of European powers on the eve of WWII. Since the North African countries had Muslim majority populations, as well as settler colonialists from Europe, Jews had varying relationships with their neighbors. Perelman asked the speakers about North African Jews’ rights and how European politics impacted their standing.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 16, 2021 13:07 UTC