Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds

Moroccan Jewish culture is unique, rooted in its earliest settlements and connected to the region's historic peoples. It is analyzed by historians, anthropologists, musicologists, Rabbinic scholars, Arabists, and linguists in Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds, which explores political and social interactions, cultural commonalities, traditions, and halakhic developments. Much of what is left of Jewish life in Morocco is maintained in Moroccan ex-pat communities and memories of those who stayed and those who left.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 506 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

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 Moroccos 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 volumes 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.

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 Moroccos 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 volumes 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.

Weight: 680g
Dimension: 231 x 153 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793624949