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IntersectionLieuXVe–XXe siècle

Region: Maroc (vallée du Drâa, province de Zagora)

Intersection register · custodian, not owner

The Drâa valley (province of Zagora, Morocco) contains a series of ksour, some of which, known as Ktawa, welcomed Jewish communities as early as the Middle Ages. These Jews of the Drâa played a determining role in the circuits of trans-Saharan trade (Sudanese gold, Saharan salt, spices) and in Berber goldsmithing. Most emigrated to Ouarzazate, Casablanca, or Israel in the 1950s–1960s.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Ktawa (ksour de) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Sources & resources

  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan

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