Jews under Moroccan skies
Subtitle: two thousand years of Jewish Morocco
By: Raphael David Elmaleh and George Ricketts
Contributors: Ricketts, George
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Gaon Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Fe, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781935604242; 9781935604341
Subjects: Social life and customs; Jews; Judaism; Description and travel; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. Jewish Morocco: a brief history; title: The first Jewish footprints; title: Islam arrives in Morocco (7th/8th century); title: The Sephardic Jews; title: The Portuguese occupy Morocco (15th/16th century); title: The Alaouite dynasty (early years); title: The Europeans desirous of Morocco; title: Morocco as a French protectorate; title: French colonialism and the Jews; title: Jewish Morocco: the rapid decline (1946-1967); title: Morocco gains its independence; title: The great exodus; title: Jewish Morocco in more recent times; title: Section 2. Guardians of Morocco's Jewish heritage: the story of Casablanca Jewish Museum; title: Witnesses to the past (extracts from three interviews with elderly Moroccan Jews); title: Section 3. Jewish sites around Morocco; title: Section 4. The history of Jewish Morocco, region by region; title: Section 5. The culture of venerating Moroccan Jewish tzaddiks; title: Names and locations of the shrines of the more important Moroccan Jewish tzaddiks; title: The belief in the occult and superstition by Morocco's Jews; title: Moroccan Jewish feasts; title: Section 6. Food and drink.