Museum of Moroccan Judaism
Former Jewish orphanage turned museum of Sephardic and Berber Jewish heritage, ritual objects and Judaica.
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This guide to the Museum of Moroccan Judaism in Casablanca follows a stack of papers behind glass that once belonged to Haim David Serero, Morocco's first chief rabbi, and the opera singer descendant who spent nearly twenty years chasing down scattered pieces of Moroccan Jewish heritage. It traces how prayer shawls, marriage contracts and rabbis' documents ended up in auction houses after the community shrank from as many as three hundred fifty thousand people to a few thousand, and how those objects quietly changed hands among strangers who had no idea what they held. Start at the display case near the entrance, where that stack of papers sits behind the glass.
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