Wartime North Africa: a documentary history 1934–1950: edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 2022, xii + 368 pp., £XX (softcover), ISBN: 978-1-50363-199-1.

"Wartime North Africa: a documentary history 1934–1950" is a book edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein that brings together a collection of testimonies and documents from North Africa during the rise of Fascism and Nazism, the impact of race laws and internment during World War II, and the challenges faced by survivors in the postwar period. The book includes a diverse range of voices, including Muslims, Jews, West African soldiers, and European refugees, and the sources are translated from multiple languages. The editors provide contextual introductions and footnotes to support the sources, allowing them to speak for themselves. The book sheds light on the experiences of North African Jews during the war, which has received limited scholarly attention, and aims to foster empathy and solidarity across diverse experiences of violence and deprivation. [Extracted from the article]