#moroccan jews

[itskebb]

! DONT FORGET !

(Postcard of Mizrahi reading the Torah. Cant find much else)

Not all Jews are Ashkenazi so DONT TREAT US LIKE WE ARE!

! DONT FORGET !

! WE ARE JEWISH TOO !

(Moroccan Jews at a henna party wearing Kaftans and Berberisca. The Berberisca dress; or ‘Keswa El Kbria’ is a Moroccan Jewish wedding dress.)

#jewish #jewish culture #mizrahi jews #mizrahim #mizrahi culture #arab jews #sephardic #sephardi jewish #sephardim #Sephardi culture #Berberisca #kaftan #arabic #hebrew #jews #jew stuff #queer jews #jews of color #morocco #moroccan jews #ethiopian jews #maghreb #jewish diaspora #diaspora #israel

[noah-genatossio]

Jewish Orphans, Casablanca Morocco 1948. Credit: JDC.

#moroccan jews

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Yaniv Pohoryles

Can one be Spanish, Moroccan and Jewish at the same time while living under French influence? The story of the Jews of northern Morocco, mainly from the Tangier region, is one of the most complex and intriguing stories of the Jewish community in the region.

According to Dr. Aviad Moreno, a faculty member at the Ben-Gurion Institute at Ben-Gurion University, the National Authority for Ladino Culture, and representative of the Royal Spanish Academy in Israel, the majority of Tangier and North Moroccan Jews are descendants of the expelled Jews from Spain who settled in the region after the expulsion and established Sephardic Jewish communities.

“The Jews in Northern Morocco preserved and developed the Judeo-Spanish language they brought from Spain even centuries after being expelled from the Iberian Peninsula, blending it with local Arabic and Amazigh linguistic elements," says Moreno.

"In this aspect, they differed from other Jewish communities in Morocco that did not maintain the Spanish language, even if they originated from Spain.

The region itself underwent various transformations, and when Spain occupied the area, its representatives encountered these Jews who spoke the language they identified as their own. There have been attempts to assimilate them and use them as agents of modernization, fueled by great curiosity towards the language they preserved and a desire to reconnect them with their Sephardic Spanish heritage."

#morocco #moroccan jews #jews of norther morocco #dr aviad moreno #tangier

[mauricedharris]

My Israel/Palestine Learning Curve Is a Zigzag

Part 1: My Moroccan-Israeli family I am the child of a family of Moroccan Jewish refugees who found refuge in Israel. My mom was 16 on the day in 1956 when her entire life in Morocco abruptly ended — the day that her father was tipped off by an Arab friend that he was marked for death by the Moroccan liberation fighters (who were trying to oust their French colonizers) because he was discovered…

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#1948 #Azor #exile #Israel #Israeli-Palestinian #Israeli-Palestinian conflict #Meron Benvenisti #Mizrahi #Mizrahi Jews #Moroccan Jews #Nakba #Palestine #partition #progressive Zionism #Rabbi Maurice Harris #Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948 #Tel Aviv #Yom Ha&039;atzmaut #Zionism

[eretzyisrael]

One of the first stories I remember is the one my father used to tell me about our family's origins. My dad explained that it began with my “great-great-great-great” grandfather, who lived in the Anti-Atlas mountains of southern Morocco. One day, all of the Jewish men in the village were ordered to convert (in my father's strange phrase) “on the pain of death.” They refused. Fifty of them were burned alive in a bonfire. Our forefather, Maklouf, and his grown sons were among them, but his wife, whose name has been lost to time, fled the village with her baby boy. After weeks of trekking across the harsh terrain that stretched from the mountains down to the coast, she somehow reached the gates of her hometown, Essaouira, a walled port city at the crossroads of the great trading routes of the Atlantic and the Sahara.

In time she recounted the saga to her son Moshe, who grew up to become a scribe remembered for his beautiful handwriting. He in turn told it to his son Yosef, a rabbinical scholar known for both his height and his humility; Yosef told it to his son David, a rabbi admired for his fairness as an arbiter of disputes; and David told it to his son Isaac, a painter, writer, and raconteur who memorized Cyrano de Bergerac and the poems of Victor Hugo. Isaac told it to my father, Hai, a conceptual artist who drove a cab in New York before landing a job as a renderer of pointillist pen-and-ink portraits for the Wall Street Journal.

#saki knafo #morocco #moroccan jews #anti-atlas mountains #forced conversion

[mental-mona]

#casablanca #morocco #moroccan jews #jewish interest #jews #jumblr

[secular-jew]

#Indian #israel #secular-jew #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #secularjew #islam #algerian #moroccan #Yemeni #hamas #antisemitism #islamism #gaza #judea #tel aviv #samaria #hamas is isis

[rotzaprachim]

soooo many of the deep scars drawn up this week not only over antisemitism but colonialism and the legacy of violent imperialism. anyway I’ll say it again but many aspects of anti Asian racism and antisemitism are not fully interchangeable but deeply linked, and there are a lot of lines of ideological reasoning our communities should not be getting in bed with rn. One of the most significant is the “hive mind” that makes every Asian or Jew responsible for what states do in their name, another is inherent distrust or inscrutability over having “weird rituals” or secretly Evil plans, another is dual loyalties. Please be aware that if you see people using this logic towards one group they’ll likely be comfortable using it with another

#It should occur to many people that Jews can be victims of both? #We can hold multiple forms of trauma in our family history???? #Me and my other Ashkenazi friend who are Tagalog and Bengali especially #My friends who are Moroccan-Jewish and Baghdadi-Jewish #Drawing a hard line between victims of antisemitism and colonization is really isolating actually #I don’t enjoy being called a white coloniser over recognizing war crimes carried out against JOC #Seeing people make very simplistic takes on imperialism to jsutify various points I CAN HEAR YOU

[foodglorious-food]

Shakshuka - A spicy egg and tomato dish invented by Maghreb Jews in North Africa and adopted all over the Middle East 🥚🍅🍳

#foodglorious-food #foodporn #yummy #foodblogger #foodgloriousfood #lunch #dinner #food #breakfast #eggs #shakshuka #tomato's #maghreb #North African #African Jews #Moroccan #mizrahi jews #mizrahi cuisine #mizrahi cooking #Sephardic Jews #Sephardi #foodblog #foodie #follow foodglorious-food #vieformidable #follow vieformidable #pasta #cheese #brunch

[rodeodeparis]

having jewish family from n iraq general area is very strange. n iraq area is a bit of an outlier from its neighbors people group-wise because it’s often kurd = muslim; arab = muslim also; assyrian = christian (or at least an overwhelming amount of christians are assyrian); yazidi = yazidi; but jews are called ‘kurdish jews’? they probably just got that label because they were in the area (some have ‘tribal’ last names if they were from the literal towns the tribes got their names from), but for example syrian jews who lived in aleppo/damascus and spoke arabic are called syrian jews, some people use “arab jew” but afaik most don’t 

in that context “kurdish jew” seems a little...misleading? “assyrian jew” is too, they were both religious minorities and spoke aramaic but jews have a separate history (and due to current politics it feels insensitive but idk.) and both of those can be used by israeli govt stuff for propaganda purposes, so looking into sources for this is nigh impossible. tbh i prefer ‘mesopotamian jew’

#strange situation overall that i don't think can be solved anytimne soon #*srael pretty much fucked up jewish history research that isnt european #ultimately small potatoes compared to what palestinians are going through #weird pan-’mizrahi’ ethno-anthropology ultimately relates back to it. colonialism & all that #both 'kurdish jew' and 'assyrian jew' sources i managed to find were zionist propaganda. sobs #not to mention it was a very small community and there aren't a ton of descendants in the world in comparison to like. moroccan jews #ironically the most reputable + objective historical account w/ interviews from people who lived it #was compiled by someone currently head of netanyahu's 'ministry of arab affairs' #such is the state of mizrahi jewish history research #there’s also historical records referring to them both as ‘kurdish jews’ and ‘assyrian jews’ #but 'kurdish jews' could've been location-based and probably wasn't in the modern context of 'a people' #('kurdish christians' was often used to refer to assyrians for example) #and 'assyrian jews' was also used to refer to s. iraq general area jews and syrian jews #i’d complain about how it’s annoying that jews are ‘their own thing’ unless they’re bene israel/’kurdish’/yemenite etc but #ill uh. explain this in a reblog

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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#agidir #world cup #morocco #moroccan jews

[idabackwardsintherain]

I mean, even if the ira joke was made by the filmmakers, jkr did write an Irish family of leading gingers with a fuck ton of kids.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I'm not sure if the Weasleys are meant to have Irish heritage, but even if they're not, the Irish Catholic stereotypes are definitely there.

#fun fact: i know a moroccan jew who says the weasleys have a lot of moroccan jewish traits (but realises this is definitely unintentional) #harry potter #potterverse #hibernophobia #weasley family

[eretzyisrael]

In their adopted countries too,  the emigrants have a problem – they  cannot fulfil their aspirations. Out of a ‘superiority complex’,  they refuse to integrate. They continue to give their children Muslim first names. Islamic State or ISIS are waiting around the corner to exploit their frustrations and dashed hopes.

Where do the Jews fit in? From the age of 11 Bouzouba becomes  jealous of their joie de vivre, born of the knowledge that this life, and not in the world to come, is the only one they have – and they had better make the best of it. He wants to be ‘happy as a Jew’.

Islam’s fatalism implies that no personal responsibility is ever taken. A person who missed his bus says ‘the bus drove off without me’.The solution lies, Bouzouba believes, in an Islam reformed in the image of the medieval philosopher Ibn Rushd, the Muslim equivalent of the rationalist rabbi Maimonides. During his lifetime Ibn Rushd was accused of being a heretic and his books were burnt.

For Bouzouba, the Jews are the canary in the Moroccan coal mine. The exodus of  all but 2,000 of its 250,000 Jews  is generally blamed on Israel.  Bouzouba has a different take:

“I would impute such a tragedy to the chronic intolerance inherited from the Arab conquerors, and a progressively institutionalised antisemitism, tailored to fit a land newly taken over by Islam. Hassan II was not embarrassed to demand an exit tax of 500 dollars (sic) a head from the Israeli government. The monarch deported three percent of his own subjects as if they were cattle. By encouraging them to leave, he mutilated a people of its 3,000-year old history for the sake of a few dollars.”

He goes on to say that an underdeveloped country on the threshold of the pre-modern era which sees a quarter-of-a -million citizens leave en masse is fated to suffer a societal and identity crisis.

#morocco #moroccan #france #jews #bouzouba

[secular-jew]

This is not traditional dress....this is

#Yemeni #khazaki #israel #secular-jew #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #Iranian #women #traditional dress #afghani #secularjew #islam #moroccan #Algerian #Tunisian #iraqi #Malaysia #Malaysian

[rotzaprachim]

the state of Israel is a long form political tragedy however Israeli food is a very real category and the best food on earth. Recognizing this is what being an adult with complicated opinions is all about

[willowchild]

Ummm why were Yemenite Jews screwed over again and again. Why the hell were they done so dirty from the second they came here.

#like what the fuck. the kidnappings. their general treatment. they literally lived in burial caves in jeruslam for a while. ughhhh #like they never did catch a break. #fun fact my sister's husband is half yemenite half Moroccan :) #ugh its so. the condescending when they have one of the most amazing and interesting cultures. #that can b said abt mena jews too #it speaks