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By Emily Benichou Gottreich, Daniel J. Schroeter
With just a small remnant of Jews nonetheless residing within the Maghrib before everything of the twenty first century, the majority of latest population of North Africa have by no means met a Jew. but as this quantity unearths, Jews have been an essential component of the North African panorama from antiquity. students from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, and the USA shed new mild on Jewish existence and Muslim-Jewish kin in North Africa throughout the lenses of heritage, anthropology, language, and literature. The background and lifestyles tales advised during this booklet light up the shut cultural affinities and poignant relationships among Muslims and Jews, and the uneasy coexistence that either united and divided them through the historical past of the Maghrib.
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Nate topographical entities, not religious or symbolic ones (except perhaps Maka barat, meaning “cemetery”), as is also the case with Musa, "Issa, and Yusuf. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity and Their Mental Onomastic Representations The triumph of Islam set in motion extensive toponymic creativity with regard to names of biblical origin. Earlier prophets, such as Ayyub (Job), "Issa (Jesus), Shu"ayb (Jethro), Musa (Moses), and so forth are recognized by Muslims, which explains their inclusion in the local onomastic field.
41. It is also worth noting that several films have recently been made in North Africa that deal with the topic of indigenous Jews and intercommunal relations. These include Goodbye, Rethinking Jewish Culture in North Africa 23 Mothers, directed by Mohamed Ismail, and Where Are You Going, Moshe? written, directed, and produced by Hassan Benjelloun. 42. Mohammed Kenbib, Juifs et Musulmans au Maroc, 1859–1948 (Rabat: Université Mohammed V, Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 1994); Mohammed Kenbib, “Les relations judéo-musulmanes au Maroc, 1860–1945: essai bibliographique,” Hespéris- Tamuda 23 (1985): 83–104; Mohammed Kenbib, “Recherches sur les Juifs du Maroc.