Jews and Muslims in Morocco
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2494-9 (ISBN)
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.
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. Drora Arussy is director of the American Sephardi Federation Institute of Jewish Experience.
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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 | 04.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies |
| Co-Autor | Jane S. Gerber, Daniel J. Schroeter |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-2494-1 / 1793624941 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-2494-9 / 9781793624949 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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