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I contextualize Moroccan Jewish history, going back to pre-Islamic Morocco, the Arab invasions and the Islamization of the region. I consider legends of a holdout Jewish kingdom just beyond the horizon as crucial shapers of rural Moroccan imaginaries about Jews and Judaism. I then discuss how the exile of the Sephardim from Spain and colonial politics shaped Moroccan Jewish society as indigenous foreigners. I write about saint veneration as shared Muslim–Jewish practice. I conclude with a description of the Jewish mass emigration in the twentieth century and the beginnings of Jewish heritage tourism in Morocco.
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Driver, C.T.P. (2018). Moroccan Muslims Locating Moroccan Jews in Time and Space. In: Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78786-2_3
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