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Moroccan Jewish Community in North America - UPG North America

Captured 2025-11-22

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Moroccan Jewish Community in North America - UPG North America

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This web page provides a comprehensive overview of the Moroccan Jewish community in North America, documenting both their historical roots in Morocco and their contemporary diaspora experience. The primary focus is on understanding this relatively recent immigrant community within the broader context of Jewish migration patterns, serving as an educational resource that appears to be part of a larger project documenting various ethnic and religious communities in North America. The page presents a detailed historical narrative tracing the Jewish presence in Morocco from the 8th century through to modern times, highlighting key periods of both protection and persecution. Particularly significant is the documentation of demographic decline, with the Jewish population in Morocco dropping dramatically from 218,000 in 1952 to approximately 2,500 by 2020. The content explains how political changes, including the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the increasingly authoritarian rule under King Hassan II, prompted mass emigration to Israel, France, and Canada. Today, the North American Moroccan Jewish diaspora comprises around 52,000 people, with Canada receiving the majority of immigrants between 1960-1989, primarily settling in French-speaking Quebec (especially Montreal) and Toronto, while the U.S. community mainly consists of secondary migrants who came via Israel or Latin America after 1973. The page provides rich cultural and religious insights, explaining how Moroccan Jews developed distinct traditions as Sephardic Jews, including their own dialect (Judeo-Moroccan Arabic), unique Torah reading music, and cultural practices like henna ceremonies at weddings. Interesting cultural details include the celebration of Mimouna festival after Passover and the historical context of mellahs (Jewish quarters built for protection, named after the Arabic word for salt). The content notes an intergenerational shift where first-generation immigrants tended to be secular, while subsequent generations have become more religious and focused on preserving Moroccan Jewish traditions. A notable feature of the page is its interactive map component designed to show Moroccan Jewish communities across North America, complete with Google Maps integration and filtering options for population size and geographic concentration. The page includes engaging "Did You Know?" sidebars with cultural trivia, and appears to be part of a larger evangelical Christian missionary resource, as evidenced by references to "gospel witness" and priority scoring systems. This suggests the content serves dual purposes: providing legitimate ethnographic information while also functioning as a strategic resource for religious outreach to these communities.

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Moroccan Jewish Community in North America - UPG North America. (2025, 11 22). upgnorthamerica.com. https://upgnorthamerica.com/project/moroccan-jewish-community-in-north-america/

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Domain upgnorthamerica.com
File Size 994 KB
Archived 2025-11-22T16:17:24.662107
Document ID #118
Languages 5 available