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The Mellah of Marrakesh : Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City. Emily Benichou Gottreich
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Author: Emily Benichou GottreichPublished Date: 25 Nov 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::201 pages
ISBN10: 0253218632
ISBN13: 9780253218636
Publication City/Country: Bloomington, IN, United States
File size: 42 Mb
Dimension: 155x 235x 16.26mm::362.87g
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The history of Marrakesh, a city in southern Morocco, stretches back nearly a thousand years. The country of Morocco itself is named after it. Founded c. 1070 the Almoravids as the capital of their empire, Marrakesh went on to also serve as the Sept 29: Morocco Michael Menachem Laskier and Eliezer Bashan, Morocco, in The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times, 471-504. Emily Gottreich, The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco s Red City (Bloomington, 2005): Introduction and Chapters 3-4. [Images on pp. 74, 77 The red walls of the city, built Ali ibn Yusuf in 1122 1123, and various buildings constructed in red sandstone during this period, have given the city the nickname of the "Red City" or "Ochre City". Marrakesh grew rapidly and established itself as a cultural, religious, and trading center for the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa; Jemaa el the "mellah" of marrakesh. Jewish and muslim space in morocco's red city. Bloomington: indiana university press 2007. XV, 201 p. (indiana series in middle east studies) For travellers Morocco can be about haggling for carpets, romantic dreams of Christian and Jewish communities have existed here for centuries, although in while Tangier's MC Muslim raps with a death-metal growl, and Fez City Clan still houses a royal palace and acres of gardens, and flanks Marrakesh's mellah. The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007). Translated into French as: Le Mellah In Emily Gottreich s book, The Mellah of Marrakesh, the author describes the space of the mellah, as part of the fabric of the city, as a liminal space for the Muslim inhabitants of the city. This was an area that Muslims were allowed to enter in the daytime but remained closed at night, a space in which Muslims came to pursue "[The Mellah of Marrakesh] captures the vibrancy of Jewish society in Marrakesh in the tumultuous last decades prior to colonial rule and in the first decades of life in the colonial era. Although focused on the Jewish community, it offers a compelling portrait of the political, social, and economic issues confronting all of Morocco Mellah von Fès. Die älteste Mellah ist die von Fès, die im Jahr 1438 von Abdalhaqq II., dem letzten Sultan der Meriniden, eingerichtet wurde. Ein Jahr zuvor war aus einem vermutlich geplanten Zufall das Grab mit dem angeblich unversehrten Leichnam von Idris II. (791 828) gefunden worden. FEZ, Morocco Among the spice souks and craft shops that line the turns and alleys of the mellahs, or old Jewish quarters in Moroccan cities, are traces of a rich history. Mixed in with the shades of crimson and the scent of smoke and mint are imprints of Morocco s Jewish past. The Mellah of Marrakesh, Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City (review) Raphael Israeli Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 26 Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco s Red City, Emily Gottreich. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 201 pp. $24.95. 3 Muslims and Jewish Space 71 Dubbed Marrakech la Rouge in French and al-mamr1ºin Arabic for its red ochre visage, Marrakesh was surely an Orientalist s dream city. As the winter home of the sultan, it bore the all-important title of royal capital, for which rea- The mellah of Marrakesh:Jewish and Muslim space in Morocco's red city. Emily Gottreich Indiana series in Middle East studies Indiana University Press, c2007: pbk. Joëlle Bahloul, The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962, trans. Catherine du Peloux Ménagé (Cambridge, 1996). Harvey E. Goldberg, Jewish Life in Muslim Lia: Rivals and Relatives (Chicago, 1990). Emily Gottreich, The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco s Red City A very personal travel through the Morocco of my ancestors, and the Morocco I remember. See more ideas about Morocco, My ancestors and Moroccan. According to Berthier, it was also traded for arms during the sixteenth century. In The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco s red city, Emily Gottreich notes that Marrakesh s sugar was fancied the Queen of England, who would In Casablanca I visited the Moroccan Jewish Museum, the only Jewish museum in any Arab country, where the more conventional display of Jewish-Berber costumes and jewelry, scores of hands of Fatima pendants, and an entire goldsmith s workshop from the mellah of Fez express new expectations of inclusion laid out in the preamble to Morocco s Although as many as 240,000 Jews lived in Morocco as recently as the 1940s, only elusive in the mellahs of Fez and, as I discovered later, Marrakesh. Today the mellah in Fez still feels distinct from the city's other precincts. To the street, in support of the Muslim policy of keeping women concealed. The Mellah of Marrakesh, Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City, Emily Gottreich. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 201 pp. $24.95. This admirably researched and written volume is a landmark in the growing historiography and ethnography of reading Gottreich, Emily. The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco s Red City (2007) During a visit to Morocco one wanders through the alleys of the different Jewish Quarters and hears the word Mellah again and again. The Medina of Fez is the oldest walled city, dating from 900 AD, and the largest in the in the first-class compartment of the train from Marrakesh to Fez on our is still a few hundred years old) to visit the Jewish Quarter, the Mellah. Indeed, Morocco's Jewish population peaked in the 1940s but since the Prof. Gottreich is the author of The Mellah of Marrakech: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco s Red City (2007) and co-editor of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (2011). Her forthcoming work is entitled Morocco: A Jewish History from Pre-Islamic to Post-Colonial Times. The arrival of Spanish Jewish refugees brought important changes in city life and within the preexisting Jewish community. Jewish life in the Muslim interior of Morocco became dominated the Sephardic plutocracy that continued to maintain control of the Moroccan Jewry up until modern times.
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