Morocco #2 – Jewish Heritage Around the World with Avi Ben-Hur

Join CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur on a fascinating look at Jewish heritage in six different countries across Europe and North Africa. We will dedicate two weekly sessions to each country in this twelve-week series. Read about each of the countries below.
This series is co-sponsored by Rodef Shalom Congregation.Jews have lived in Morocco for at least 2000 years, although the modern community is composed of descendants from antiquity, Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition and local Berbers who converted. The largest Jewish community in the Middle East during the first half of the 20th century, Moroccan Jewry left the country in three directions in the 1950s and 1960s; to Israel (the majority), France and North America. Today Morocco bemoans the loss of this essential addition to its culture. We will investigate the heritage of this particular Jewish civilization from the Middle Ages till today