In a tribute to the “Jewish” Marrakesh of days gone by, the memoirist Joseph Dadia notes that he and his six siblings were all born at what his mother called Dar Madame Logé. 1 This would have been the maternity hospital in Marrakesh established
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Françoise Légey and Childbirth in Morocco
Jonathan G. Katz
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Instead of a Novel
Sophia Yablonska's Travelogues in the History of Modern Ukrainian Literature
Olena Haleta
–1935), traveled to Marrakesh inspired by Yablonska. Despite Yablonska's popularity, her lifestyle as well as her writing were seen as very unusual and even challenging for Galicia at that time. Sarcastic comments about her appeared in Ukrainian and Polish
Aspects of Spanish Acculturation among Moroccan Jews
Moisés Orfali
for Tafilalt and its environs and Marrakesh, different families have different customs, that is, those who are descendants of the megorashim communities follow the custom cited. While among the other families, some follow the custom of the
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2019
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The Preservation and Continuation of Sephardi Art in Morocco
Shalom Sabar
Sefer ‘Oẓerot Ḥayyim by Rabbi Ḥayyim Vital (1542–1620), copied in Marrakesh in 1752 ( Figure 1 in the image section). The horseshoe arch is a typical Moorish arch familiar from the Islamic period in medieval Spain and popular in Morocco as well. It
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2019
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Defiant Deviance and Franco-Moroccan Cinema's Queer Representations of Masculinity
Lowry Martin
, Much Loved shows prostitutes partying in Marrakesh, speaking raunchy Arabic, and servicing wealthy Saudi clients; gay transvestite prostitutes; drug use; lesbian sex; sexual tourism; and police corruption. Like Taïa, Ayouch sees the cinema as a social
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Prelude to Colonialism
Moroccan Muslims and Jews through Western Lenses, 1860–1912
Michael M. Laskier
translated into popular protests and tribal arrests throughout the country. Anti-European manifestations expanded in 1907 into Marrakesh, resulting among other things in the brutal murder of the well-known French physician Emile Mauchamp. Despite Mauchamp
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 111–128 (18 total)
Women's Lives in Colonial and Postcolonial Maghrib
Etty Terem
French physician, who worked in Marrakesh between 1910 and 1935. At her initiative, a maternity hospital and milk dispensary were established to serve the European community as well as Moroccan Muslims and Jews, and an ambitious project to train “modern
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Harold Bloom and William Shakespeare
The ‘Saints of Repetition’ and the Towers of Babel
Taoufiq Sakhkhane
and unseat its creator. For him, Shakespeare rehabilitated the pre-Babel state and accordingly made all subsequent writers mere ‘saints of repetition’, to use a phrase by Elias Canetti in his encapsulation of the voices of Marrakesh, who can only re
The Battle of El Herri in Morocco
Narratives of Colonial Conquest during World War I
Caroline Campbell
slavery. While Lyautey argued that it was best to let the institution in Morocco simply die out, he did shut down a major slave market in Marrakesh in 1912, calling the selling of human beings an “unseemly exhibition.” 90 In this context, Laverdure
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2020
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From Casablanca to Houston
A Family Story
Julie Fette
integration had begun with Marcelle’s parents, who had been educated in French-speaking schools run by the Alliance israélite universelle but whose own parents spoke only Arabic in their hometown of Marrakesh. Marcelle’s parents were part of the first
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
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