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Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)

Pogrom in the mining city, two days after that of Oujda

7-8 juin 1948·Jerada (Maroc)

Toll
~38

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

Jerada was a mining town in eastern Morocco, born of coal, where a small Jewish community of merchants and craftsmen lived. Two days after the pogrom in Oujda, the neighboring town, the violence spread there as well.

The crowd attacked the Jewish quarter in the morning; men, women, and children were killed in the streets and in their homes, including the community's rabbi. The protectorate authorities restored order during the day, and convictions would be handed down.

These two days in June, occurring one month after the proclamation of the State of Israel, are the deadliest in contemporary Moroccan Jewish history. They triggered the departure of the community of Jerada and weighed heavily on the decision to emigrate made by the country's entire Jewish population.

Period :
Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Type :
Pogrom
Region :
Egypt and Maghreb
Country :
Maroc
Sources

Michael M. Laskier, *North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century* ; Norman A. Stillman, *The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times*.

At the same place6

  1. 1790-1792Reign of Moulay Yazidcentaines
  2. 1808Legal persecutiontoll not established
  3. 31 octobre 1940Status of the Jews of Morocco (dahir of October 31, 1940)bilan non établi
  4. août 1941Second statute: census and numerus clausus in Moroccobilan non établi
  5. 1942Economic Aryanization in Moroccobilan non établi
  6. 1943Maintenance of anti-Jewish laws in Morocco after the Allied landingbilan non établi

In the same country32

  1. 1032Massacre of the Jewish quarter during the capture of the city by Tamim ibn Ziri; the survivors reduced to captivityinconnu
  2. 1033Massacre by the Zenata of Tamim ibn Ziri~6 000
  3. 1147Capture of the city by the Almohadesinconnu
  4. 1165Execution of Juda ibn Shushan, persecutionstoll not established
  5. 1438Creation of the mellah and expulsion from the medinatoll not established
  6. 1465Massacre of the mellah during the overthrow of the Marinidsquasi-totalité de la communauté
  7. 1586Persecution of the Jews of Morocco under the Saadiansinconnu
  8. 1664Attack on the mellah during succession troubles in Moroccoinconnu

And 24 more in the catalogue.

Event 2268 of 2483, in chronological order · Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970): 80 events in the catalogue

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