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Beginning in ancient Morocco, the film begins by describing the Berber Jews.Jewish life in Morocco is shown with scenes of a wedding and a bris.The head of a Berber village describes how the Jewish community was established in the village, and the narrative goes on to recount the details of the second wave of Jewish immigration from the Iberian Peninsula following the Spanish Inquisition. [6]
Zafrani was also a leading scholar on the history of the Jews of Morocco. His best-known book is 2000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco (translated from French and published in an English edition). Zafrani began his career as a teacher and became a school inspector in charge of the teaching of Arabic in the Alliance Israélite Universelle schools ...
As a result, the Sephardic scholarly mercantile elite were quick to dominate Jewish communal life in Morocco. [31] A number of natives from Fez fled to Spain over the course of the fifteenth century and returned to Fez following 1492, acting as a unique bridge between the native Jews of Morocco and the newly arrived Sephardim.
Laskier, Michael. The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco, 1862-1962. Roth, Cecil. Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol 12. Simon, Reeva Spector. The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. Zafrani, Haïm. Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco.
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.
Sephardi Jews quickly dominated Jewish communal life in Morocco due to their scholarly and mercantile elite status. [15] Some newcomers integrated into existing communities, while others remained separate due to cultural and leadership differences. The reception of these exiles was shaped more by local conditions and less by religious ideology.
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 original Jewish cemetery of the city was located outside the city gate (now occupied by later Muslim cemeteries). Fez had long hosted the largest and one of the oldest Jewish communities in Morocco, present since the city's foundation by the Idrisids (in the late 8th or early 9th century).