Jews under Islam in early modern Morocco in travel chronicles

This paper addresses the relationship between the ideological and legal structures that discriminated against Jews in early modern Morocco and its reflection in social practices. The study shows th...

Jewish Tetouan: place, community, and ethnic boundaries from the Minutes Book of the community board, 1929-46

Ressenya de: Aliberti, Davide, Sefarad. Una comunidad imaginada (1924-2015), Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2018, 334 págs.

Ressenya de: Aliberti, Davide, Sefarad. Una comunidad imaginada (1924-2015), Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2018, 334 págs.

The Sephardim of North Morocco, Zionism and Illegal Emigration to Israel Through the Spanish Cities of Ceuta and Melilla

This text looks at the fluid intersection in the emergence and development of Zionism and the later Zionist-promoted emigration of Moroccan Jews to Israel from what was the Spanish Protectorate zone in Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in the north of Sherifian state. This process has received less attention from scholars than similar events in the French zone. However, it has some particularities that merit specific attention. From the early years of contact between North Moroccan Jews and European Zionism, the strong cultural identity of the Sephardim in the region and the mobilization of a Spanish approach informed by philo-Sephardism marked an important difference wi…

Introduction: Jewish cultural heritage, space and mobility in Spain, Portugal and North Africa