The Sultanas Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World

by Daniel Schroeter and Daniel J. Schroeter

This pathbreaking study uses the extraordinary life of Meir Macnin, a prosperous Jewish merchant, as a lens for examining the Jewish community of Morocco and its relationship to the Sephardi world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Macnin, a member of one of the most prominent Jewish families in Marrakesh, became the most important merchant for the sultans who ruled Morocco, and was their chief intermediary between Morocco and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737770
• ISBN13: 9780804737777
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"