Relevant Articles
Articles, essays, and research from scholars, journalists, and community members, chosen by JIMENA to deepen your understanding of Jewish life in Morocco.
Articles
A View from Tangier: Inner Dynamics of Moroccan Jewish Modernity
Historian Aviad Moreno of Ben-Gurion University looks at how the Jewish leadership of nineteenth century Tangier used the language of European modernity to build its own authority.
Lean on Humility to Bend toward Unity (Distinctions).
Jewish Journal editor David Suissa, born in Morocco, draws on his ancestors’ experience to argue that humility is the path to Jewish unity.
Morocco: A Modern-Day Model for Convivencia in the Arab World (Distinctions)
Reporter and researcher Rachel Benaim-Abudarham presents Morocco’s long history of Jewish communal life as a model for coexistence in the Arab world.
Schroeter, “The Shifting Boundaries of Moroccan Jewish Identities”
Historian Daniel J. Schroeter examines how Moroccan Jewish identity has been defined and redefined over time, in an article for the journal Jewish Social Studies.
Report on the Jews of Morocco
Justice for Jews from Arab Countries traces the history of Morocco’s Jewish community, once the largest in the Arab world, and its decline to about 2,500 people today.
