The Holocaust and North Africa, editors Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein<\/p>\n
Review:<\/p>\n
North Africa ceased to exist as a political entity\u00a0\u00bb – A. Chouraqui<\/p>\n
The historian Andr\u00e9 Chouraqui correctly wrote that, \u201cwith French occupation of Algeria in 1830 \u2013an event which marked the beginning of profound French influence\u2026- and the subsequent establishment of French protectorates in Tunisia and Morocco in 1881 and 1912 respectively, North Africa could no longer be regarded as an historical and political unit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Holocaust in Europe was a political \u00ab\u00a0state-sponsored\u00a0\u00bb process as stated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and described as such by all Holocaust scholars. Unfortunately, the authors of the book inaccurately titled \u00ab\u00a0The Holocaust and North Africa,\u201d adopted a \u201cgeographically\u201d continental approach to European Holocaust history rather than a political approach that place the Holocaust in Europe in its \u201cproper contemporaneous context\u201d of an imperial Europe, a \u201cEurope inclusive of the North African colonies\u00a0\u00bb as correctly defined by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Hitler himself defined Europe as \u00ab\u00a0the European nations and their overseas territories.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
Holocaust historians Yehuda Bauer, academic advisor at Yad Vashem, Leni Yahil, Peter Longerich, Martin Gilbert and others correctly narrate history of the European Holocaust as not taking place in geographically continental Europe, but as taking place in the political proper context of political Europe, inclusive of Europe’s overseas North African possessions, Vichy-Tunisia, Vichy Morocco, Vichy Algeria, and Italian Libya. That\u2019s why they narrate the persecution, deportations, and murder of the Jews in Vichy-French Tunisia, Vichy Fr. Morocco, Vichy Fr. Algeria, and Italian Libya as an integral part of the Shoah in France (\u201can empire nation;\u201d \u00ab\u00a0Frankreich\u00a0\u00bb German for French Empire) and Italy respectively. Those historians simply use \u201cHistorians habits of the mind\u201d and the true historical methodology of \u201cproper context\u201d and \u201cprecision of language\u201d promoted by the National Council for History Education, and historians at Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm), and EHRI.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn history, background and context matter.\u201d It is imperative to \u201cperceive past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy rather than present-mindedness.\u201d (History\u2019s habits of mind, The National Council for History Education \u2013 NCHE). How a Holocaust scholar approaches the evolution of political events, assembles historical evidence, and properly contextualizes them by using a precise terminology, are very important decisions within historiography, because they determine the quality and the accuracy of the historical account.<\/p>\n
Edith Shaked
\nAdvisory Board Member H-Holocaust, an international academic consortium\/H-Net’s Network for scholars of the Holocaust
\nShaked attended the relevant contHolocaust and North Africa at UCLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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