She says: “We want to preserve the Jewish heritage of Morocco as well as the Islamic and Christian cultures.”
A treasure trove of artefacts exhibited in a privately owned villa, it tells the story of the once thriving community of “les juifs du Maroc".
An estimated 5 000 Sephardic Jews live side by side with Muslims in Morocco today.
Muslims and Jews share a history of religious persecution - more than a million fled to North Africa during the conquistadors’ subjugation of Spain and Portugal in the 13th century.
The Muslims stayed in the Maghreb but some 70 000 Moroccan Jews emigrated to Israel, Europe and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s, leaving behind evocative cemeteries, synagogues and residential quarters.
We were entranced by the museum’s collection of ancient tibah (pulpits), circumcision chairs, bar mitzvah tefillim (small boxes containing Scriptures), Torah scrolls and Hannukah candelabras.
The curator says: “The museum was an orphanage for Jewish children in the 1940s. Young Muslims like me are researching Jewish history. We’re trying to understand the role of a minority culture in Morocco. We get many visitors from Israel.”
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