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in Europe, it was intended to preserve dress as an identifying marker of one's social class to signal to others the proper courtesies or dignities required as such, however these restrictions, which included not imitating Muslim attire, came to be regarded as humiliating. These rules were mostly not
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ordered to restore the names of the streets that had to do with the city's Jewish heritage, including restoring the name of the neighborhood back to "El Mellah", allocating over US$ 20 million for the restoration of houses, streets and synagogues. In November of the same year,
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requested funds from the Israeli government to support a synagogue located in the mellah, in an unexpected move for both the Israeli government and the Jewish Community of Morocco. Today, the mellah is one of the main tourist attractions of the city.
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The mellah became overpopulated within a few years. An estimated 40,000 people lived in the mellah at the peak of its population in the late 1940s. The community emigrated after the
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wrote that "when they enter the Moorish town, castle, or palace, are always compelled to be barefooted", suggesting that the rule was not enforced in the
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According to some primary sources, Jews were forced to go barefoot in the city. The only source discussing the rule in the 19th century is
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The rule was often observed more stringently when Jews ran into political trouble, sometimes in connection with the
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in 1060, Jews settled 40 km away and there is no recorded Jewish presence in the city until 1232. After the
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which allowed them to wear European shoes, and inflamed local resentments that Jews had become "too bold".
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in 1815, but despite the formal reintroduction of the restrictions, their enforcement was lax in practice.
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enforced. In Morocco, the rules were only applied to Jews when they were reintroduced by
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to remove their slippers in the palace "in accordance with their ancient status of
184:. The Jewish population of the mellah of Marrakesh today is about 200 inhabitants. 244: 139: 1377: 962: 545: 198: 193: 101: 50: 40: 32: 1282: 1351: 1272: 1237: 1191: 1070: 993: 227: 169: 133: 105: 1433: 1361: 1098: 1022: 775: 396: 345:"Jewish Mellah of Marrakech | History & Visit of Ancient Jewish District" 327: 210: 129: 1323: 1252: 1247: 1196: 223: 1308: 1287: 1277: 1257: 1211: 796: 700: 690: 165: 97: 23:
Corner of Talmud Torah and Francisco streets in the Mellah of Marrakesh.
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The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City
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status. The Mellah of Marrakesh was created by decree of the Sultan
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Marrakech’s Mellah: A Return to Peaceful Co-Existence
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Hebrew
Ladino
Arabic
Jewish Quarter
Mellah
Marrakesh
Morocco
Almoravids
Reconquista
expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula
Sephardic Jews
Megorashim
Toshavim
mellahs
dhimmi
Abdallah al-Ghalib
Saadian dynasty
El Badi Palace

Slat Al Azama synagogue
independence of Israel
French protectorate
Six-Day
Yom Kippur
Israel
France
Montreal
King Mohamed VI
Zouheir Bahloul

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