Thursday, November 16, 2023, 12PM - Garrison Room, Memorial Union

Professor Emerita Susan Miller will expand on her book Years of Glory about Nelly Benatar’s activism during WWII to talk about the leading role this Moroccan Jewish lawyer played in investigating a brutal pogrom in Eastern Morocco just after the State of Israel was declared in 1948. Historians have never adequately answered the question of why this violence took place, who was responsible, and why the terrible events of June, 1948  have been so completely erased from the memory of both Moroccan Jews and Muslims. Was it a deliberate cover-up, and if so, why? We will go over the facts of the case as we know them,  and speculate on their disappearance from the pages of history.