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Jews Under Moroccan Skies

Raphaël Elmaleh,George Ricketts

Author : Raphaël Elmaleh,George Ricketts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1935604244

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Jews under Moroccan Skies tells the story of Jewish life in Morocco, describing in realistic detail how Jews and Muslims interweaved their lives in peace for centuries. The authors give us the rich history of Berber Jews, the Moroccan tzadikim, and Jewish mysticism in the country. They also describe the cultural differences between the Judeo-Spanish communities of the North, the Francophone urban Jews, and the Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Berber traditions. "No chapter in the long history of the Jewish people has more power and more relevance to our contemporary world than Moroccan Jewry. And it is the least known, by far! This wonderful book will draw you into its mystery, captivating and capturing your imagination. If you don't want to be tempted to travel, don't read this book. You will never be satisfied until you see it with you own eyes accompanied by the unparalleled teacher and guide, Raphael David Elmaleh! People all over the world have been waiting for Raphy to put his words down on paper. This magnificent book is the result. It is a gem!" -- Peter A. Geffen, Founder and Executive Director KIVUNIM Founder, The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, New York

Jews and Muslims in Morocco

Joseph Chetrit,Drora Arussy,Jane S. Gerber

Author : Joseph Chetrit,Drora Arussy,Jane S. Gerber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793624932

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Jews and Muslims in Morocco by Joseph Chetrit,Drora Arussy,Jane S. Gerber Pdf

Jews and Muslims of Morocco collects accounts of the intersecting worlds and emergent shared customs and culture, suggesting that the unique atmosphere in Morocco allowed for Rabbinic empowerment and a more practical approach to halakhah.

Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco

Haïm Zafrani

Author : Haïm Zafrani
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0881257486

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Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco by Haïm Zafrani Pdf

The origins of the Jewish community of Morocco are buried in history, but they date back to ancient times, and perhaps to the biblical period. The first Jews in the country migrated there from Israel. Over the centuries, their numbers were increased by converts and then by Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. After the Muslim conquest, Morocco's Jews, as "people of the book," had dhimmi status, which entailed many restrictions but allowed them to exercise their religion freely. In the mellahs (Jewish quarters) of Morocco's cities and towns, and in the mountainous rural areas, a distinct Jewish culture developed and thrived, unquestionably traditional and Orthodox, yet unique because of the many areas in which it assimilated elements of the local culture and lifestyle, making them its own as it did so. Most of Morocco's Jews settled in Israel after 1948, and many others went to other countries. Wherever they went, their rich cultural heritage went with them, as exemplified by the Maimuna festival, just after Passover, which is now a major occasion on the Israeli calender.

The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco, 1862-1962

Michael M. Laskier

Author : Michael M. Laskier
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438410166

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The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco, 1862-1962 by Michael M. Laskier Pdf

The Alliance Israélite Universelle—an international organization representing a community of over 240,000 Jews—was founded in France in 1860. Its goal was to achieve the intellectual regeneration and social and political elevation of the Jewish people. This book examines the impact of the AIU on Moroccan Jewry. It answers such questions as: How did the AIU establish itself in Morocco's communities? How did it go on to become a power not to be underestimated by either the Moroccan government or the Europeans? And more importantly, how did the AIU improve the conditions of the Jews in Morocco, creating an important French-speaking urban elite? Also discussed are such topics as Zionism and Jewish-Muslim relations in Morocco.

Jewish Morocco

Emily Benichou Gottreich

Author : Emily Benichou Gottreich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781838603618

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Jewish Morocco by Emily Benichou Gottreich Pdf

The history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Gottreich examines the history of Jews in Morocco from the pre-Islamic period to post-colonial times, drawing on newly acquired evidence from archival materials in Rabat. Providing an important reassessment of the impact of the French protectorate over Morocco, the author overturns widely accepted views on Jews' participation in Moroccan nationalism - an issue often marginalized by both Zionist and Arab nationalist narratives - and breaks new ground in her analysis of Jewish involvement in the istiqlal and its aftermath. Fitting into a growing body of scholarship that consciously strives to integrate Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, Emily Gottreich here provides an original perspective by placing pressing issues in contemporary Moroccan society into their historical, and in their Jewish, contexts.

Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco

Cory Thomas Pechan Driver

Author : Cory Thomas Pechan Driver
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319787862

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Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco by Cory Thomas Pechan Driver Pdf

Exploring the roles of Muslim guards and guides in Jewish cemeteries in Morocco, Cory Thomas Pechan Driver suggests that these custodians use performances of ritual and caring acts for Jewish graves for multiple reasons. Imazighen [Berbers] stress their close ties with Jews in order to create a moral self intentionally set apart from the mono-ethically Arab and mono-religiously Muslim Morocco. Other subjects, and particularly women, use their ties with Jewish sites to harness power and prestige in their communities. Others still may care for these grave sites to express grief for a close Jewish friend or adoptive family. In examining these motives, Driver not only documents the flow of material and spiritual capital across religious lines, but also moves beyond Muslim memory of the past on the one hand and Jewish dread of the future on the other to think about the Muslim/Jewish present in Morocco.

The Sultan's Communists

Alma Rachel Heckman

Author : Alma Rachel Heckman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503614147

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The Sultan's Communists by Alma Rachel Heckman Pdf

The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Abraham Serfaty, Simon Lévy, and Sion Assidon), Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and '60s, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance. The figures at the center of Heckman's narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism, Arab nationalism, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that, upon independence from France and Spain in 1956, allied itself with the United States (and, more quietly, Israel) during the Cold War, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan's Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.

Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco

Issachar Ben-Ami

Author : Issachar Ben-Ami
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0814321984

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Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco by Issachar Ben-Ami Pdf

Among Moroccan Jews, saint worship is an important cultural characteristic, practiced throughout the population. Saint Veneration among the Jews in Morocco, the only book in English on this topic, contains essential information about Moroccan Jewry not available anywhere else. The Hebrew edition, published by Magnes Press in 1984, has become a standard classic in the study of the history, culture, and religious practices of Moroccan Jewry. In this new English language edition, based on ten years of fieldwork, Issachar Ben-Ami provides the basic historical and ethnographic information about saint veneration. He illuminates the intricate network that connects the saints and their faithful followers, while revealing the ideological fundamentals that sustain the interrelationship and ensure ritual continuity. Using material selected from more than 1,200 testimonies collected during the course of his research, Ben-Ami describes historical and legendary types of saints, customs and beliefs related to the saints or their sanctuaries, and the practices and ceremonies that take place during or outside the hillulah, the the festival that celebrates the anniversary of the death of a saint. Two chapters are dedicated to a comparison with the cult of saints among the Muslims in Morocco as well as to the relationship between Jews and Muslims in Morocco in what concerning saint veneration. In addition, Ben-Ami has included an exhaustive list of 656 saints-25 of whom are women-as well as documentation of the burial sites and legendary stories of the saints' lives as they have been told by their followers and worshippers in Israel. Also included are popular creative works such as legends, stories, dreams, and songs extolling the greatness and miraculous deeds of the saints. The picture that emerges from this study is that of a strong community of believing Jews who lived in the expectancy of the coming of the Messiah and welcomed miracles as part of their routine life. With the immigration of the Jews of Morocco to other countries, this fascinating world has disappeared, although it has found new ways of expression in Israel.

Across Legal Lines

Jessica M. Marglin

Author : Jessica M. Marglin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Interfaith relations
ISBN : 9780300218466

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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- Map of Morocco -- Introduction -- 1 The Legal World of Moroccan Jews -- 2 The Law of the Market -- 3 Breaking and Blurring Jurisdictional Bound aries -- 4 The Sultan's Jews -- 5 Appeals in an International Age -- 6 Extraterritorial Expansion -- 7 Colonial Pathos -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z

Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Morocco

Kristin Hissong

Author : Kristin Hissong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838607401

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Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Morocco by Kristin Hissong Pdf

Moroccan Jews can trace their heritage in Morocco back 2000 years. In French Protectorate Morocco (1912-56) there was a community of over 200,000 Jews, but today only a small minority remains. This book writes Morocco's rich Jewish heritage back into the protectorate period. The book explains why, in the years leading to independence, the country came to construct a national identity that centered on the Arab-Islamic notions of its past and present at the expense of its Jewish history and community. The book provides analysis of the competing nationalist narratives that played such a large part in the making of Morocco's identity at this time: French cultural-linguistic assimilation, Political Zionism, and Moroccan nationalism. It then explains why the small Jewish community now living in Morocco has become a source of national pride. At the heart of the book are the interviews with Moroccan Jews who lived during the French Protectorate, remain in Morocco, and who can reflect personally on everyday Jewish life during this era. Combing the analysis of the interviews, archived periodicals, colonial documents and the existing literature on Jews in Morocco, Kristin Hissong's book illuminates the reality of this multi-ethnic nation-state and the vital role memory plays in its identity.

The Sultan’s Jew

Daniel J. Schroeter

Author : Daniel J. Schroeter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0804737770

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This book examines the Jewish community of Morocco in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through the life of a merchant who was the chief intermediary between the Moroccan sultans and Europe .

The Mellah Society

Shlomo Deshen

Author : Shlomo Deshen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226143408

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The Mellah Society is a compact yet detailed and fascinating account of Jewish life in precolonial Morocco, based on the voluminous but rarely studied writings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Judeo-Moroccan sages. Shlomo Deshen, author of several books on North African Jewish immigrants to Israel, here turns his attention to the past. Taking as his focus the tension between individualism and communal authority—symbolized by the walls of the mellahs, the Jewish quarters—he applies to traditional Moroccan Jewish society questions of concern to sociologists everywhere regarding political organization, economic activity, religion, and the family. From such documents as private correspondence, archival photographs, and the legal commentaries of rabbis who served in the Jewish community courts, Deshen draws out details of daily life: disputes between spouses, businessmen, craftsmen, and inheritors; the ramifications of marriage contracts; and claims involving community taxes and extortions by Muslim potentates. Linking this material with recent historical and anthropological studies of the Maghreb, Deshen reconstructs a community about which little has been known and places it squarely within the context of traditional Moroccan society. Individual chapters deal with relations between Muslims and Jews, the material conditions of Jewish life, and the nature of politics within the mellah. Deshen devotes particular attention to the nature of the Moroccan rabbinate, the sociology of the mellah synagogue, lay community leadership, and the historic role of the Sephardic heritage in Morocco after the expulsion from medieval Spain. His close study of the nature of the extended family in traditional Morocco corrects popular misconceptions. Originally published in Israel in 1983, now translated and expanded by its author, The Mellah Society draws upon Middle Eastern and Jewish history, textual Judaic studies, and social anthropology to make an original contribution that will interest scholars of the Middle East and North Africa as well as anyone concerned with Jewish history and ethnicity.

Jewish Morocco

Emily Benichou Gottreich

Author : Emily Benichou Gottreich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838603625

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Jewish Morocco by Emily Benichou Gottreich Pdf

The history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Gottreich examines the history of Jews in Morocco from the pre-Islamic period to post-colonial times, drawing on newly acquired evidence from archival materials in Rabat. Providing an important reassessment of the impact of the French protectorate over Morocco, the author overturns widely accepted views on Jews' participation in Moroccan nationalism - an issue often marginalized by both Zionist and Arab nationalist narratives - and breaks new ground in her analysis of Jewish involvement in the istiqlal and its aftermath. Fitting into a growing body of scholarship that consciously strives to integrate Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, Emily Gottreich here provides an original perspective by placing pressing issues in contemporary Moroccan society into their historical, and in their Jewish, contexts.

North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century

Michael M. Laskier

Author : Michael M. Laskier
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814752654

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North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century by Michael M. Laskier Pdf

Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new Israeli state through their settlements, often becoming the victims of Arab-Israeli conflicts and terrorist attacks. Their contribution and struggles are, in many ways, akin to the challenges emigrants from the former Soviet Union are currently encountering in Israel. Today, these North African Jewish communities are a vital force in Israeli society and politics as well as in France and Quebec. In the first major political history of North African Jewry, Michael Laskier paints a compelling picture of three Third World Jewish communities, tracing their exposure to modernization and their relations with the Muslims and the European settlers. Perhaps the most extraordinary feature of this volume is its astonishing array of primary sources. Laskier draws on a wide range of archives in Israel, Europe, and the United States and on personal interviews with former community leaders, Maghribi Zionists, and Jewish outsiders who lived and worked among North Africa's Jews to recreate the experiences and development of these communities.Among the subjects covered: --Jewish conditions before and during colonial penetration by the French and Spanish; --anti-Semitism in North Africa, as promoted both by European settlers and Maghribi nationalists; --the precarious position of Jews amidst the struggle between colonized Muslims and European colonialists; --the impact of pogroms in the 1930s and 1940s and the Vichy/Nazi menace; --internal Jewish communal struggles due to the conflict between the proponents of integration, and of emigration to other lands, and, later, the communal self-liquidiation process;—the role of clandestine organizations, such as the Mossad, in organizing for self-defense and illegal immigration;—and, more generally, the history of the North African `aliyaand Zionist activity from the beginning of the twentieth century onward. A unique and unprecedented study, Michael Laskier's work will stand as the definitive account of North African Jewry for some time.

Morocco

Daniel J. Schroeter,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Author : Daniel J. Schroeter,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : London : Merrell ; New York : Jewish Museum
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015049739017

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Morocco by Daniel J. Schroeter,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Explores the conundrum of Jewish Moroccan identity, from the earliest times to the present day.

Jewish Morocco

Jews Under Moroccan Skies by Raphaël Elmaleh,George Ricketts Pdf

Jews and Muslims in Morocco by Joseph Chetrit,Drora Arussy,Jane S. Gerber Pdf

Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco by Haïm Zafrani Pdf

The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco, 1862-1962 by Michael M. Laskier Pdf

Jewish Morocco by Emily Benichou Gottreich Pdf

Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco by Cory Thomas Pechan Driver Pdf

The Sultan's Communists by Alma Rachel Heckman Pdf

Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco by Issachar Ben-Ami Pdf

Across Legal Lines by Jessica M. Marglin Pdf

Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Morocco by Kristin Hissong Pdf

The Sultan’s Jew by Daniel J. Schroeter Pdf

The Mellah Society by Shlomo Deshen Pdf

Jewish Morocco by Emily Benichou Gottreich Pdf

North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century by Michael M. Laskier Pdf

Morocco by Daniel J. Schroeter,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

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