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What is the right perspective toward Jewish life in Islamic countries. following " A torn community - The Jews of Morocco and Nationalism, 1943-1954" by Yaron Tzur
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This study aims at investigating the reasons behind the shrinking of the Jewish community in Morocco, as well as at highlighting why it is important to do so. Jews have existed in Morocco since the antiquity, and they are one of the reasons why Morocco is considered a multicultural nation that sets an example for peaceful coexistence. Sources indicate that around a quarter of a million Jews lived in Morocco by the mid-twentieth century. Recent statistics, however, show that only around five percent of that number remains. The increasing emigration rate among the members of the Jewish community provokes concerns about their status in the country. My main concern is to explore the reasons for this emigration, and the extent to which Jews are accepted and integrated in the Moroccan society, especially in light of the continuous conflicts in the Middle East. The importance of such a study lies in its attempt to raise awareness about the potential loss of a component of the Moroccan civilization and a pillar of the Moroccan social fabric, which can have a negative impact on the country on many levels. In brief, there are two major questions that need to be addressed: Are Jews accepted by the Moroccan society? Otherwise, why do they leave the country?
Prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Morocco was home to some 250,000 Jewish inhabitants. Moroccan Jews had arrived in the country by means of two major waves of immigration, the first following the Roman-imposed exile in 70 A.D., the second following the 1492 Spanish Edict of Expulsion. Through nearly two millennia of cohabitation and cultural exchange, the Jews had become an integral part of Moroccan society. From the influence they exerted on the development of Amazigh/Berber tribal consciousness and religious beliefs to their central economic and political position during the Alaouite Dynasty (1631-present), Moroccan Jews have played a significant role in all stages of recorded Moroccan history. However, within a matter of decades following Israel’s Declaration of Independence, this entire substratum of Moroccan culture and society had all but vanished. Today, around 5,000 Jews remain in Morocco, the majority of which are concentrated in Casablanca, the country’s commercial and industrial capital.
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From 1948 onwards, the Jews of the Arab world left the countries of their ancestors not to return. The bulk of these migrations, around six hundred thousand persons, settled in the newly created Jewish State of Israel, in ancient Palestine. Most of them were Moroccan Jews, as Moroccan Jewry was the biggest of the Arab world. Although motivations may seem obvious, the crash of two emerging and powerful opposite nationalisms, Arab and Jewish, several studies have already pointed out that the situation was much more complex. 2 The aim of this article is to avoid easy conclusions and to come as close as possible to the position of Jewish populations, in view of the Arab world's personal attitudes towards Zionism, the creation of the State of Israel, the emergence of Arab nationalism, and the independence claims of Arab countries. That is, it tries to understand how local Jewish populations were positioned, particularly in Morocco, in relation to the important political changes that were taking place in the North of Africa and the Middle East in the mid-XX th century: on one hand, the creation of the State of Israel and, on the other hand, the independence of the Maghreb countries. These ten years, in which nothing was written, determined the future of most of the Maghreb countries and their diverse populations.
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Yigal Bin-Nun, "The Disputes regarding the Jewish Emigration from Morocco 1956–1961", in Jews and Muslims in the Islamic, ed., World, Bernard D. Coopermen & Zvi Zohar, University Press of Maryland, 2013, p. 51-100.
The Disputes regarding the Jewish Emigration from Morocco 1956–1961There are many answers to the critical question as to why the Jews of Morocco left. Some of the reasons were substantive and were based on mat- ters of fundamental importance. Others were circumstantial, resulting form the specific time at which the Jews left, during the early 1960s. The Jewish community, the international Jewish organizations and the State of Israel were all concerned because, despite all the calming declarations put out by the Moroccan authorities, it was impossible to deny the basic fact that the independent Moroccan state was defined by its constitution as an Islamic state. But the problem was not connected to legal definitions alone. Post- colonial Moroccan society was characterized by a lifestyle in which religion played an important role and all of its culture was based on the Muslim experience. This socio-cultural situation did not leave any room for those who were not Muslims or for those who were secular in the style of many West European societies since the French Revolution. "The Disputes regarding the Jewish Emigration from Morocco 1956–1961", in Jews and Muslims in the Islamic, ed., World, Bernard D. Coopermen & Zvi Zohar, University Press of Maryland, 2013, p. 51-100.
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Moroccan Jews in Modern TimesUntil the mid twentieth century, Moroccan Jewry constituted the largest non-Ashkenazi Jewish community and had more than double the population of any other Jewish community in the Islamic world. Under the influence of the Alliance Israélite Universelle school network, French colonialism, the experience of World War II and the innate tensions between Zionism and Arab nationalism, the Jews of Morocco underwent a variety of transformations and ultimately the dissolution of the community as a result of the mass exodus to Israel, France and North America.
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Many of the anthropologists who conducted fieldwork in Morocco between the 1960s and the 1980s have noted in their writing the relations they observed be-tween the Jewish and Muslim populations.1 However, this dimension of Mo-roccan society is hardly mentioned in more ...
Yigal Bin-Nun, “The Reasons of Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956-1967,: The Historiographical Problems”, in Françoise S. Ouzan & Manfred Gerstenfeld, Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth 1945-1967, Brill, Leiden Boston 2014
The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from MoroccoThe Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956-1967, The Historiographical Problems The history of the Jewish community in independent Morocco is one limited in time. The almost total evacuation of this ethnic-religious minority is an oppor- tunity for a historian to trace its itinerary in a country that was transformed from a French protectorate into a new independent state maintaining close ties with the former colonial power as well as with the Arab Muslim world and developing third world countries. Aware of the issue, the historian can evalu- ate more easily the failure of its integration into Moroccan society and the rea- sons that led to its departure ten years after the end of the colonial era. He can also observe with lucidity how attractive the young Israeli state, though coping with di!"culties to survive or exist, was to the eyes of a minority torn between its long local history in Morocco, its French culture, and its Jewish identity.
This article is an analytical overview of the history of Moroccan Jewry, from pre-Islamic times to the present day, exploring the themes of myth, memory and political interests in the multi-faceted, continuous interactions between the community and Moroccan society as a whole. In referring to seminal developments in Moroccan political history, it analyses the different ways in which the Jews of Morocco experienced them as an integral part of the larger societal mosaic. This survey of the 2,000-year Jewish presence in Morocco employs a variety of classical and modern sources in order to locate the place of Moroccan Jews within the ebbs and flows of Moroccan dynastic history, particularly following the establishment of the first Islamic dynasty in the eighth century, C.E. It also engages with current historiographical debates on the subject matter. Overall, it provides clarity and order to the subject of Jewish–Muslim inter-communal relations in Morocco over the longue durée, a matter too often shrouded in myths and half-truths.
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