Jews and Muslims in Morocco : their intersecting worlds / edited by Joseph Chetrit, Jane S. Gerber, and Drora Arussy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arussy, Drora, 1970- editor.

Chetrit, Joseph, editor, author.

Gerber, Jane S., editor, author.

Series:

Sephardic and Mizrahi studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, Moroccan.

Jews--Morocco--History.

Jews.

Muslims.

History.

Morocco.

Muslims--Morocco--History.

Ethnic relations.

Manners and customs.

Morocco--Ethnic relations.

Morocco--Social life and customs.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 492 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publsihing Group, inc., [2021]

Summary:

"Jews and Muslims of Morocco collects accounts of the intersecting worlds and emergent shared customs and culture, suggesting that the unique atmosphere in Morocco allowed for Rabbinic empowerment and a more practical approach to halakhah"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Refuge in Morocco after 1492

2. Jews and the Moroccan Monarchy in the Age of Imperialism / Jane S. Gerber

3. Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and the Jews of Morocco during the Second World War: New Discoveries / Daniel J. Schroeter

4. Centering the Margin: Family Networks, Occupational Mobility, and Saharan Jews / Joseph Chetrit

5. Jewish Bodies, Muslim Bodies, and French Medicine in Morocco / Aomar Boum

6. Sebaa Ouled Ben Zmirou in Jewish and Muslim Contexts: Return to the Dead and Encounters after Death / Jonathan G. Katz

7. Invisible Neighbors: Demonology between Jews and Muslims in Morocco / Jose Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim

8. A Common Language: Popular Music in Morocco / Noam Sienna

9. The Ahwash: Jewish and Muslim Articulations of a Shared Amazigh (Berber) Cultural Tradition in Morocco and its Diaspora / Vanessa Paloma Elbaz

10. Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map / Sarah Frances Levin

11. The Image of Morocco in the Poetry of R. David Ben Hassin (1727-1792) / Edwin Seroussi

12. Muslims and Christians in the Writings of Twentieth-Century Hakhamim of Morocco / Andre E. Elbaz

13. Traveling between Place and Faith: Moroccan Jews Migrating to the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century / David Moshe Biton

14. Takkanot of the Moroccan Rabbis Concerning the Inheritances of Wives and Daughters in the Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries / Michal Ben Ya'akov

15. Rabbi Refael ben Dva'sh: Precursor of Moroccan Legal Activity / Moche Amar

16. Memories of Jewish-Muslim Co-existence in the New Mellah of Meknes and Jewish Heritage Conservation in Post-Colonial Morocco / Melech Westreich

17. Growing Up in the Mellab of Taroudant: Spaces, Time, Acquaintances, and Rupture. A Memoir with Two Poems / Ahmed Chouari

18. Delacroix and the Jews of Morocco / Joseph Chetrit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jews and Muslims in Morocco

ISBN:

9781793624925

1793624925

OCLC:

1246283951

Publisher Number:

99988331281