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Perspectives on Moroccan Jewish Legacy

Quick reads and opinion pieces on Muslim-Jewish heritage, dialogue, and solidarity—straight from our field team.

Dec 2022

Morocco is building bridges to connect its youth with its Moroccan Jewish cultural heritage. Here’s how.

Morocco has been a vibrant center of Jewish life for millennia—a history that the country still honors in its daily relationships and embrace of different religions and ways of life. Before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the Jewish population in Morocco reached almost three hundred thousand people. It was the biggest non-Ashkenazi community in the world and the largest Jewish community in the Muslim world.

Apr 2023

Safeguarding the past: The Arab world’s cure to Holocaust amnesia

Seventy-eight years after World War II, as facts fade and fewer survivors remain, the Holocaust risks being forgotten. This natural amnesia is compounded by widespread campaigns to revise or repress Holocaust history...

May 2024

How Cabo Verde is highlighting the rich history of the Jewish people in Africa ?

A decade ago, Cabo Verde, a predominantly Christian country, restored its Jewish cemeteries under the patronage of a Muslim leader, King Mohammed VI of Morocco.

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