Jews and Muslims in Morocco -

Jews and Muslims in Morocco

Their Intersecting Worlds
Buch | Hardcover
506 Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2492-5 (ISBN)
135,90 inkl. MwSt
Jews and Muslims of Morocco collects accounts of the intersecting worlds and emergent shared customs and culture, suggesting that the unique atmosphere in Morocco allowed for Rabbinic empowerment and a more practical approach to halakhah.
Moroccan Jewry has a long tradition, harking back to the area’s earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with the historic peoples of the region. In Jews and Muslims of Morocco historians, anthropologists, musicologists, Rabbinic scholars, Arabists, and linguists examine the complex and hybrid history of intercultural exchange between Moroccan Jewry and the Arab and Berber cultures through analyses of 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. The essays in this collection span political and social interactions throughout history, cultural commonalities, traditions, and halakhic developments. Acknowledging that Jewish life in Morocco has dwindled and continues to exist primarily in the memories of Moroccan Jewish diaspora communities, the volume concludes with personal memories an analysis of a visual memoir, and a photo essay of the vanished world of Jewish life in Morocco.

Drora Arussy is director of the American Sephardi Federation Institute of Jewish Experience. Joseph Chetrit is professor emeritus of socio-pragmatics, French linguistics, and Judeo-Arabic linguistics at the University of Haifa. Jane S. Gerber is professor emerita of history and founder and director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Introduction

Section 1. Political and Social Interactions

Chapter 1: Refuge in Morocco after 1492: From Iberian Outcast to Moroccan Dhimmi

Jane S. Gerber

Chapter 2: Jews and the Moroccan Monarchy in the Age of Imperialism

Daniel J. Schroeter

Chapter 3: Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and the Jews of Morocco During the Second World War: New Discoveries

Joseph Chetrit

Chapter 4: Centering the Margin: Family Networks, Occupational Mobility and Saharan Jews

Aomar Boum

Chapter 5: Jewish Bodies, Muslim Bodies, and French Medicine in Morocco

Jonathan G. Katz

Section 2. Cultural Commonalities

Chapter 6: Sebaa Ouled Ben Zmirou in Jewish and Muslim Contexts: Return to the Dead and Encounters After Death

José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim

Chapter 7: Invisible Neighbors: Demonology Between Jews and Muslims in Morocco

Noam Sienna

Chapter 8: A Common Language: Popular Music in Morocco

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz

Chapter 9: The Aḥwash: Articulations of a Shared Amazigh (Berber) Cultural Tradition in Morocco and its Diaspora

Sarah Levin

Section 3. Religious Traditions and Halakhic Developments

Chapter 10: Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map

Edwin Seroussi

Chapter 11: The Image of Morocco in the Poetry of R. David Ben Ḥassin (1727-1792)

André Elbaz

​Chapter 12: Muslims and Christians in the Writings of 20th Century Hakhamim of Morocco

David Moshe Biton

Chapter 13: Traveling Between Place and Faith: Moroccan Jews Migrating to the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century

Michal Ben Ya’akov

Chapter 14: Takkanot Concerning the Inheritances of Wives and Daughters among Moroccan Rabbis in the 15th – 20th Centuries

Moche Amar

Chapter 15: Rabbi Refael ben Dva”sh: Precursor of Moroccan Legal Activity

Elimelech (Melech) Westreich

Section 4. Memoirs in Word and Image

Chapter 16: Memories of Jewish-Muslim Coexistence in the New Mellaḥ of Meknes and Jewish Heritage Conservation in Post-Colonial Morocco

Ahmed Chouari

Chapter 17: Growing up in the Mellaḥ of Taroudant: Spaces, Time, Acquaintances and Rupture. A Memoir with Two Poems

Joseph Chetrit

Chapter 18: Delacroix and the Jews of Morocco

Maurice Arama

Photo Essay

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
Co-Autor Jane S. Gerber, Daniel J. Schroeter
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 236 mm
Gewicht 857 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-7936-2492-5 / 1793624925
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-2492-5 / 9781793624925
Zustand Neuware
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