Book Summary
The Mellah Society is a compact yet detailed and fascinating account of Jewish life in precolonial Morocco, based on the voluminous but rarely studied writings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Judeo-Moroccan sages. Shlomo Deshen, author of several books on North African Jewish immigrants to Israel, here turns his attention to the past. Taking as his focus the tension between individualism and communal authority
Book Details
| Book Name | The Mellah Society: Jewish Community Life In Sherifian Morocco |
| Author | Shlomo Deshen |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press (Mar 1989) |
| ISBN | 9780226143408 |
| Pages | 166 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 911 |
