Moroccan Jews
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Moroccan Jews are Jews who live in or are from Morocco. Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community dating to Roman times. Jews began immigrating to the region as early as 70 CE. They were much late
Jews of Fes c. 1900
Ifrane Atlas-Saghir in the Anti-Atlas, known to Jews as Oufrane, is believed to be the oldest Jewish community in Morocco, speculatively dated to the year 361 BCE.
Etching of Jewish home in Mogador, Darondeau (1807–1841)
Balconies in the Mellah of Fes, an old Jewish neighborhood, distinguish the homes from homes of Muslims at the time.
Sephardic Jews
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Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsula Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsul
Moroccan Jews
…rule themselves under their own system. During the Late Middle Ages, and particularly after the expulsion of Jews mandated by the Alhambra Decree, many Sephardi Jews migrated from al-Andalus to the Maghreb as refugees fleeing the inquisition in Spain and Portugal. They are referred to as the Megorashim, while the…
Sephardic Jewish festival in Tétouan, Morocco, Alfred Dehodencq, 1865, Paris Museum of Jewish Art and History
Statue of Maimonides in Córdoba
Observing the Havdalah ritual, 14th-century Spain
Windows and decorative reliefs of the Synagogue of El Tránsito, Toledo, constructed circa 1350.