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dynamicafrica: Moroccan Amazigh artist Chama Mechtaly uses her artistic gift to channel and pay homage to her Jewish-Amazigh heritage, a part of her that was once suppressed by Morocco’s Arabization policies and sentiments that took ground following the country’s independence from France and Spain. These oil paintings of Jewish-Amazigh women are often inspired from French […]

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tzilahjewishcultureandhistory: Alexander Taylor. The Jewish communities of Morocco, 1948-1949. From up to down and left to right: Young Jewish girls at the Ecole Israelite where JDC supports educational opportunities, hot lunches, clothing and medical care. Tangier, Morocco, 1949 Jewish mothers with their children. Casablanca, Morocco, c. 1948 Lunchtime at the Ecole Israelite, where over 800 […]