Jews and Muslims in Morocco

Joseph Chetrit; Jane S. Gerber; Drora Arussy

doi:10.5771/9781793624932

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2492-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2493-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 492
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. 1. List of Figures No access
  2. List of Audio-Visual Material – on website No access
3. Map No access
1. Cultural Developments No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Sources for Reconstructing Jewish Refuge in Morocco No access
  3. Historical Precedents of Refuge in Morocco No access
  4. The Departure from Iberia and Reception in North Africa No access
  5. Who Were the Refugees to Morocco? No access
  6. From Outcaste in Spain to Dhimmi in Morocco: The Texture of Muslim-Jewish Relations No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Imperialism and the Royal Alliance No access
  2. Colonial Monarchy, Colonial Dhimmīs No access
  3. Toward a New Royal Alliance No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Introduction: Re-Examination of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef’s Action and Protection of Moroccan Jews No access
  2. Renewing the Dhimmah as a Governance Strategy No access
  3. The Jewish Appeals and Their Meetings with the Sultan No access
  4. The Role of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef in Moderating the Decrees of the Second Law on the Status of Jews No access
  5. Conclusion: The Sultan’s Rationalized and Empathetic Policy toward Morocco’s Jews No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
4. 1. The Daggatouns and Jewish Mobility in the Sahara No access
  2. Intra-regional Mobility and Jewish Communities’ Survival No access
  3. Practical Self-Segregation: Jewish Quarters in the Anti-Atlas No access
  4. Families and Lifecycles inside Jewish Neighborhoods No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Medicine and the French Civilizing Mission No access
  2. Berbers, Arabs, and Jews as Depicted in French Medical Literature No access
  3. A Nosology of “Arab” and “Jewish” Diseases No access
  4. Scientific Racism and Racial Tropes No access
  5. Manuals for Prospective Physicians in Morocco No access
  6. The Jewish Affinity for European Medicine No access
  7. The Self-Image of French Physicians No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula and Their Reunion in Morocco No access
  3. Return to the Death: The Benzamerro of Safi No access
  4. Encounters after Death: Sebaa Ouled Ben Zmirou in Jewish and Muslim Contexts No access
  5. Some Final Remarks No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Introduction: Jews, Muslims, and Demons in Morocco No access
  2. Moroccan Demonology as Shared Practice No access
  3. Jewish Clients and Muslim Practitioners No access
  4. Muslim Clients and Jewish Practitioners No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Cementing a Common but Distinct Identity No access
  3. Marocanité and Song No access
  4. Jews in the Bled No access
  5. The Jews, the Constitutional Referendum, and the Diverse Nation No access
  6. Layers of Repertoire Levels No access
  7. Sonic Presence as Jewish Musical Commonality No access
  8. Conclusion No access
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  10. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Aḥwash: A Thumbnail Description No access
  3. Brief Historical Background No access
  4. Aḥwash IN ISRAEL: PERFORMANCE OF BERBERNESS IN A NEW CONTEXT No access
  5. Aḥwash in Morocco, Present and Past: Sharing Commonalities, Celebrating Difference No access
  6. Conclusion: “We Are One/the Same,” and . . . We Are Different No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Works Cited No access
1. 1. Previous Studies and Documentation of Moroccan Jewish Liturgy No access
  2. Basics of Moroccan Jewish Liturgy: Analysis of a Service No access
  3. Analysis of the Service No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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  6. References No access
2. 1. Addendum: 7 Piyyutim of Rabbi David ben Hassin translated into English No access
  2. Notes No access
  3. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Moroccan Sultanate Period No access
  3. The French Protectorate No access
  4. Independent Morocco and the State of Israel No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
4. 1. The Holiness of Eretz-Yisrael and Its Sites No access
  2. Creating Holy Sites No access
  3. Pilgrimages, Saint Veneration, and ‘Aliyah No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Pre-Nuptial Agreements Concerning Inheritances No access
  3. Spanish Takkanot Dealing with the Inheritance of Wives No access
  4. The Motive for Changing the Inheritance Laws No access
  5. Rabbi Raphael Berdugo’s Critique of the Takkanah on Inheritance No access
  6. Takkanot Instituted by the Rabbinic Council No access
  7. Conclusion No access
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6. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Uniqueness of the Moroccan Tradition No access
  3. Ruling without Anxiety: The Case of Sucking the Blood During Circumcision No access
  4. Legislative Activity in Matters of Betrothal and Marriage No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Origins of the Mellaḥ No access
  3. Muslim-Jewish Relationships in the Mellaḥ No access
  4. Jewish Quarters in Meknes: From the Old Mellaḥ to the New Mellaḥ No access
  5. Methodology No access
  6. Tolerance and Crossing the Religious/Cultural Borders No access
  7. Findings Related to Research Question 2: Preserving Jewish Culture No access
  8. Discussion No access
  9. Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research No access
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  11. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Notes No access
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3. 1. Conclusion No access
  2. Notes No access
  3. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Family and Religious Life No access
  2. Education No access
Index No access Pages 465 - 490
About the Contributors No access Pages 491 - 492