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ABSTRACT KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive is a pioneering project to repatriate, digitize, record, and classify the remaining sonic memory of Morocco’s dwindling Jewish community. This article probes into the necessary sociological cognitive rupture that either allows or disallows the formation of archival repositories of minority memory. Stemming from interventions …

Production’s arrival underlines warming relations between the countries; Israeli cast welcomed with open arms, Channel 12 says. By TOBIAS SIEGAL In the latest sign of the warming ties between Israel and Morocco, an Israeli musical was performed in the North African country in Hebrew last week — a first for …

English below En lo que significa una decisión histórica, Marruecos enseñará historia judía en las escuelas primarias públicas del país. El rey Mohammed VI aprobó la inclusión de historia y cultura judía en el plan de estudios de lengua árabe. La Federación Sefardí Estadounidense y la Conferencia de Presidentes de …

Last week, history was made in a manner of speaking, as a Ministry of Education Committee, tasked with empowering Sephardi and Mizrahi cultural studies and history within the general education curriculum, led by Israel Prize laureate Erez Biton, handed its recommendations to Education Minister Naftali Bennett. While for many, this will …

Casablanca – The connection between written and oral traditions was the central theme at “Cantares del Norte de Marokko” (“Songs of Northern Morocco”) at the Mohammed VI Theater in Casablanca on April 14. Vanessa Paloma, an internationally-acclaimed Colombian-American singer specializing in Sephardic music, gave the concert, which featured Jewish religious …

Dissertation Abstract During the second half of the twentieth century, most Jewish inhabitants of Arab countries left their countries of residence. Much of the popular discourse and scholarly narratives concerning this historic episode attributed the motives for mass migration to the rise of local nationalism, and to related political tensions …

Boy 1: “What are those two guys doing walking around here?” Boy 2: “It’s obvious. They’re looking for the Jews.” This exchange was translated from Arabic by Youness Abeddour, a guide and documentarian who agreed to share with me his knowledge of the mellah, the walled Jewish quarter, of Fez. …

King Mohammed hailed the «spiritual wealth and diversity» of Morocco at a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the end of the restoration of a 17th century synagogue in the city of Fez. The ceremony was held in the medina, the Old City, of Fez, a UNESCO world heritage site, before …

A program of the year-long series, «2,000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco: An Epic Journey», presented Under the High Patronage of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, and made possible through the generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 6:30pm Peter …

A film about the mass exodus of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th century Produced by The David Project for Jewish Leadership and Isra TV, The Forgotten Refugees explores the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the …

Gala Benefit Dinner Celebrating 2,000 years of Jewish Life in Morocco Special honor to be bestowed upon HIs Magestic Mohammed VI, King of Morocco

El presente artículo es una edición ampliada y en inglés del publicado por «Nuevo Mundo Israelita» y difundido por eSefarad en julio de 2009. IQUITOS, Peru — If Ronald Reátegui Levy someday finds that he is the last Jew of Iquitos, it may well be of his own doing. His …