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    Issue 59 | November 2021

    Issue 59 | November 2021

    Sa'ada, wife of Abraham Benchimol, and Préciada, one of their daughters, dressed for her wedding day, painted by Eugène Delacroix on a visit to Tangier, Morocco, 1832

    Articles

  • A learned poet whose existence was discovered by chance in an acrostic she incorporated into her poetry | Courtesy of the painter Dr. Elisheva Shitrit

    In Search of a Lost Poetess – Friha ben Adiba

    Joseph Chetrit

    Liturgical poetry, or piyut, plays a major role in the Sephardic heritage but has long been considered an exclusively male enterprise – until the recent discovery of a female poet from Morocco, whose life story was legend and whose poems sp

  • Moroccan Jewish immigrants settled outside Jaffa years before the first Zionist pioneers. | Market at Jaffa, Gustav Bauernfeind, oil on canvas, 1887, private collection

    Moroccans in Zion – Avraham Muyal

    Mordecai Naor

    Surprisingly enough, the guiding hand behind eastern European Zionists’ early colonization efforts was a Moroccan Jew raised in Jaffa. He succeeded because, as the colonists discovered on arrival in Palestine, Moroccan Jews had gotten there

  • | Illustration: Ovadia Ben Ishu

    Moroccan Makeover – Fez Rabbinic Rulings

    Gabriel Abensour

    Despite the trauma of expulsion, many of Spain’s Jews reestablished themselves in Morocco, reshaping its Jewish community in their own image. The resulting communal rules and regulations indicate how fast the Spanish Jewish leadership regro

    • Columns

  • From the Archives | From Morocco to Amsterdam

    Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

    The memoir of an anonymous scholar features miracles, mishaps, and multiple wives as his thirst for Jewish learning drives him from home  Yochai Ben-Ghedalia Highly Respected Professor, This copy, which I made in my student day

  • Portrait of a People | A Fleeting Guest

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Jewish Wedding in MoroccoOil on canvas140 x 105 cmParis, 1839Louvres Museum, Paris Eugène

  • Quick Looks at Books

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Medicine: From Biblical Canaan to Modern Israel | Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History | Memorable Sephardi Voices | Contextualizing Jewish Temples Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

  • Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Bak, Mount Meron

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Israel Bak wasn’t one to give up. The first printer in Ottoman Palestine, he also established an agricultural village on Mount Meron in a series of none-too-successful pioneering endeavors  Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Khirbet Bak,

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