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Why the Jews of North Africa Had to Wait
By Michael R. MarrusIn declining to restore the rights of North African Jews in the wake of their 1942 invasion, did the Allies act with "deceit and duplicity," or were their reasons defensible?

Michael R. Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe professor emeritus of Holocaust studies at the University of Toronto. Among his books are Vichy France and the Jews (1981, co-authored with Robert O. Paxton) and, most recently, Lessons of the Holocaust (2016).