Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco write by Haïm Zafrani. This book was released on 2005. Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Jews Under Moroccan Skies
Jews Under Moroccan Skies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jews Under Moroccan Skies write by Raphaël Elmaleh. This book was released on 2012. Jews Under Moroccan Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Morocco
Morocco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morocco write by Daniel J. Schroeter. This book was released on 2000. Morocco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the conundrum of Jewish Moroccan identity, from the earliest times to the present day.
Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew
Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew write by Lawrence Rosen. This book was released on 2016. Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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."
Women and Social Change in North Africa
Women and Social Change in North Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Social Change in North Africa write by Doris H. Gray. This book was released on 2018-01-11. Women and Social Change in North Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.
