Building upon theories of identity, nationhood, and nationalism, this research seeks to shed new light on the role of minority groups in the development of nationalist narratives in heterogeneous societies. In particular, it examines the case of French Protectorate Morocco and its sizeable Jewish minority wherein the development of three primary competing nationalist narratives (French linguistic-cultural assimilation, Political Zionism, and Moroccan nationalism) created a push-pull force of narrative and identity that compelled Moroccan Jews to belong. Demonstrating a plural, dynamic, social, and.fluidtheory of identity, the stories of Moroccan Jews are powerful sources for understanding how members of a minority group navigate plural narratives and ideas of nationhood as an extension of identity construction. In order to investigate the role of Moroccan Jews amidst the development of these three narratives, the research utilizes a triangulated methodology ofthe secondary scholarly literature, archived colonial documents and periodicals, and semistructured interviews with Moroccan Jews who lived during the Protectorate and continue to reside in Morocco to the present day. From these sources emerge a new approach to nationhood and nationalism, adaptive ethno-symbolism, as well as powerful transnational implications for the role of memory in well-being and peace-building presented through the capability approach as memory capability.