Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
מחניים; במה למחקר, להגות ולתרבות יהודית
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (תשנב) 216-223
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Traces discriminatory measures and persecution of Jews in Morocco. From 1860 on, European Jewry, especially in France and England, became more aware of the plight of Morocco's Jews due to reports by diplomats and tourists. In February 1864, Montefiore visited Sultan Muhammad XVIII in Marrakesh and presented a document requesting that the Jews be protected, and that they be accorded the same advantages as the other subjects of the Sultan. The Sultan acquiesced to the first request, as it complied with Islamic law, but refused the second. In the 1860s-80s acts of violence against Jews increased in Morocco, including arrests, public beatings, murder and expulsion, extortion, and arbitrary regulations imposed by local rulers. Presents the text of a letter sent by Jewish notables of Fez in March 1880 to the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris, stating that the Jews' situation had worsened, and relating incidents of murder and pogroms in Fez, murder of the head of the Jewish community in Taza, and a rule against Jews wearing shoes in Meknes. Those Jews who received protection from European consuls in the port cities fared better, but the others continued to suffer persecution.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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