Jews Under Moroccan Skies

Author : Raphael David Elmaleh,George Ricketts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1935604473

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Jews Under Moroccan Skies by Raphael David Elmaleh,George Ricketts Pdf

Jews under Moroccan Skies tells the story of Jewish life in Morocco, describing how Jews and Muslims have interwoven their lives in peace for centuries. The authors give the rich Moroccan history of Berber Jews, the tzadikim, and Jewish mysticism. 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. "Jews under Moroccan Skies...shows the heritage of tolerance and coexistence between Jews and Muslims...and delivers a message of hope in a world of hatred and exclusion." Serge Berdugo Secretary-General of the Council of Moroccan Jews President of the World Assembly of Moroccan Jewry

Author : Joseph Chetrit,Jane S. Gerber,Drora Arussy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793624932

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

Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in its earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with the historic peoples of the region. The creative interaction of Moroccan Jewry with the Arab and Berber cultures was noted in the Jews’ use of Morocco’s multiple languages and dialects, characteristic poetry, and musical works as well as their shared magical rites and popular texts and proverbs. In Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds historians, anthropologists, musicologists, Rabbinic scholars, Arabists, and linguists analyze this culture, in all its complexity and hybridity. The volume’s collection of essays span political and social interactions throughout history, cultural commonalities, traditions, and halakhic developments. As Jewish life in Morocco has dwindled, much of what is left are traditions maintained in Moroccan ex-pat communities, and memories of those who stayed and those who left. The volume concludes with shared memories from the perspective of a Jewish intellectual from Morocco, a Moroccan Muslim scholar, an analysis of a visual memoir painted by the nineteenth-century artist, Eugène Delacroix, and a photo essay of the vanished world of Jewish life in Morocco.

Author : Haïm Zafrani
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Author : Daniel J. Schroeter,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : London : Merrell ; New York : Jewish Museum
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 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.

Author : Emily Benichou Gottreich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.

Author : Aliza Shenhar,Haya Bar-Itzhak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344538

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Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel by Aliza Shenhar,Haya Bar-Itzhak Pdf

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives focuses on two central elements: textual research to examine the aesthetic qualities of the narrative, their division into genres, the various versions and their parallels, and acculturation in Israel, as well as contextual research to examine the performance art of the narrator and the role of the narrative as a communicative process in the narrating society. The collection includes twenty-one narratives by twelve storytellers; an account of the narrators' lives and a commentary have been applied to each. In contrast to most anthologies of Jewish folktales, the texts in this book were recorded in the natural context of narration and in the language of origin (Judaeo-Arabic), meeting the most vigorous standards of current folklore scholarship.

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226317489

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Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew by Lawrence Rosen Pdf

"Drawn from Memory" is an important contribution to Moroccan studies, to the field of anthropology, and to academic approaches to biography. Rosen weaves the threads of his narrative together into a tapestry focused on the lives of four men: a raconteur, a teacher, an entrepreneur, and a cloth dealer, a Jew. Ordinary people have intellectual lives, Rosen tells us. They may never have written a book; they may never even have read one. But their lives are rich in ideas, constantly fashioned and revised, elaborated and rearranged. Rosen first encountered the four men he profiles in his book in the course of his academic research, and he then visited and revisited these men, and the towns in which they live, over several decades. He engaged them ina kind of continuous conversation. He spoke to members of their family, their neighbors, and the town people. Out of this wealth of material, he has constructed a narrative that takes the reader not only into four intensely observed individual lives but also, as it were, the history of Morocco s evolution across the span of many decades; he takes the reader not only into the outwardly lived lives of his subjects, but their innermost thoughts, their own perceptions of themselves and the evolving Moroccan world around them. At the same time, he manages to evoke the physical landscape, the towns in which these men live, marvelously well, so that the towns and their inhabitants come alive for the reader. Beautifully illustrated with archival and ethnographic photos, "Drawn from Memory" teaches us that that for Moroccans, and by extension Muslims in general, nothing in everyday social life is hard and fast, and the meaning and outcome of all interactions is the product of negotiation and relatedness."

Author : Emily Benichou Gottreich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.

Author : Daniel J. Schroeter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0804737770

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The Sultan’s Jew by Daniel J. Schroeter Pdf

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 .

Author : Kristin Hissong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,9 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.

Author : Emily Benichou Gottreich,Daniel J. Schroeter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253001467

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Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa by Emily Benichou Gottreich,Daniel J. Schroeter Pdf

With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North Africa have never met a Jew. Yet as this volume reveals, Jews were an integral part of the North African landscape from antiquity. Scholars from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, and the United States shed new light on Jewish life and Muslim-Jewish relations in North Africa through the lenses of history, anthropology, language, and literature. The history and life stories told in this book illuminate the close cultural affinities and poignant relationships between Muslims and Jews, and the uneasy coexistence that both united and divided them throughout the history of the Maghrib.

Author : Alma Rachel Heckman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,9 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.

Author : André Goldenberg
Publisher : Somogy Art Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 2757208934

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Art and the Jews of Morocco by André Goldenberg Pdf

For centuries, the artistry of the Jewish community in Morocco has flourished - as much in urban areas as in the countryside - in metalwork, manuscripts, silks, wool, leather, woodwork. Often, this creativity has given birth to exceptional works that showcase the talent and originality of artists and artisans who have nonetheless remained anonymous. Originally from Morocco, Andre Goldenberg is an ethnologist who has devoted a significant part of his life to collecting the art of the Jews of Morocco, artefacts that show a unique artistic perspective and an extremely fine artistic quality. The extraordinary collection of objects assembled in this volume reveals the multiple facets of the art of Moroccan Jews, while the meticulous research that accompanies the catalogue promises to preserve this culture for future generations. This richly illustrated book constitutes an imaginary museum, carefully detailing hundreds of masterpieces of Jewish Moroccan art gathered from public and private collections in Morocco and abroad."

Author : Michael M. Laskier
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814751299

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

A political history of North African Jewry, tracing the exposure of three Third World Jewish communities to modernization and to relations with the Muslims and European settlers. Laskier draws on a wide range of archives in Israel, Europe, and the US, 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. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Milton Jacobs
Publisher : Washington : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010341306

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A Study of Culture Stability and Change by Milton Jacobs Pdf