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World Service,1 min

The last Jews of Essaouira

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Morocco was once home to a quarter of a million Jews but most left after the establishment of Israel. Today there is a much smaller Jewish community and a growing disconnect from a younger generation of Moroccan-Muslims. But why did Jewish communities disappear from Morocco?

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