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Etching of Jewish home in Mogador, Darondeau (1807–1841). Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community with possible origins dating back to before 70 CE. Concrete evidence of Jewish presence in Morocco becomes apparent in late antiquity, with Hebrew epitaphs and menorah-decorated lamps discovered in the Roman city of Volubilis, and the remains of a synagogue dating to the third century CE.
The 20,000 Moroccan Jews who had migrated to Israel in 1948-49 faced significant racism from Ashkenazi Jews and there was a demonstrated desire among the former to leave Israel and return to Morocco, particularly among the several hundred who had served in the Israeli military during the war.
Although the city of Marrakesh was founded by the Almoravids in 1060, Jews settled 40 km away and there is no recorded Jewish presence in the city until 1232. After the Reconquista and expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, Sephardic Jews (known as the Megorashim) started to arrive in great numbers to Morocco, settling mostly in cities and mixing with the local Jewish population ...
NEW YORK (AP) — With its mountains and desert, beach resorts and Berber villages, Morocco is a feast for travelers of all kinds, including those who want to explore the kingdom's deep Jewish roots.
The main street of the Mellah, the Derb al-Souq (Street of the Market). The Mellah of Fez (Arabic: ملاح) is the historic Jewish quarter of Fez, Morocco.It is located in Fes el-Jdid, the part of Fez which contains the Royal Palace (Dar al-Makhzen), and is believed to date from the mid-15th century.
Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, his godfather and a longtime Jewish leader in the Muslim country of Morocco, had died after contracting the coronavirus. It was the second virus death in as many days, Banon ...
Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community. Before the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, there were about 265,000 Jews [1] in the country, which gave Morocco the largest Jewish community in the Muslim world, but by 2017 only 2,000 or so remained. [2]
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the tensions between the Jewish and Muslim communities increased. [8] Today, the indigenous Berber Jewish community no longer exists in Morocco. The Moroccan Jewish population rests at about 2,200 persons with most residing in Casablanca, [9] some of whom might still be Berber speakers. [10]