4. Jews of Morocco

Jews of Morocco

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Jewish Discoveries visits Morocco, finding a small community sharing 2400 year heritage.
From the arid highlands to the royal cities, Casablanca, Fes, and Marakech, Moroccan Jews cling to their culture and identity in a friendly Arab country.

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Jewish Tiblisi

A visit to Georgia, where Jewish traders plied their wares for centuries along the ancient Silk Road. We find a small Jewish community in a friendly country. Our journey took us through the mystical Caucasus mountains, the Black Sea, and Tiblisi, the capital city and home to most of Georgia’s Jews.
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Jews of Rome

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Jewish Prague Virtual Tour

Videos about Jewish life and heritage from around the world. The history of the Jews in Prague is one of Central Europe's oldest and most well-known. Prague boasts one of Europe's oldest recorded Jewish communities, first mentioned by a Mizrahi-Jewish traveller Ibrahim ibn Yaqub in 965. Since then, the community never ceased to exist, despite a number of pogroms and expulsions, the Holocaust, and subsequent antisemitic persecution by the Communist regime in the 20th century. Nowadays, the Jewish community of Prague numbers approximately 2,000 members. There are a number of synagogues of all Jewish denominations, a Chabad centre, an old age home, a kindergarten, Lauder Schools, Judaic Studies department at the Charles University, kosher restaurants and even a kosher hotel. Famous Jews from Prague include the Maharal, Franz Kafka, Miloš Forman and Madeleine Albright.
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Krakow's Jewish Heritage

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Warsaw's Jewish Renewal

The inspiring story of Jewish renewal in Poland. In the country where Jewish life was eradicated by the Holocaust and the remnants went underground during the Communist era, Jewish life has began a remarkable recovery in Poland. The video features a weekend studyfest, called Limmud (learning in Hebrew), which brought almost 1000 Jews to its gathering in Warsaw. Organized and sponsored by JDC.
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A Walk in the Marais

A visit to the Marais, the historic Jewish quarter of Paris, now a fashionable neighborhood of boutiques and cafes. With Samuel Ghiles-Meilhac, historian, Jewish scholar and resident of the Marais. In this colorful neighborhood of narrow streets and grand buildings, we find remnants of a Jewish culture that once characterized the district.
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Jewish Buenos Aires

A visit to Latin America's largest and most vibrant Jewish community. In one of Buenos Aires most popular plazas, a Jewish festival draws thousands of visitors. The Buenos Aires Jewish community was established in 1862 and held its first traditional Jewish wedding in 1868. The first synagogue was inaugurated in 1875. The Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe who settled in Argentina were called rusos (Russians) by the local population.
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Discovering Antwerp

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Jewish Sofia

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Culinary Experience in Segovia

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Jewish Trieste

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Jewish Spain

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The Moroccan Jews

Jewish heritage tours of Morocco typically cycle through Casablanca, Tangiers, Fes, and Marrakesh. But the Jewish Moroccan heartland lies south of these metropolitan centers, in the towns and villages of the Atlas mountains and Sahara desert. Here, Jewish life punctuated the landscape, legendary rabbis helped sustain rural communities, and a distinctive Judeo-Amazigh (Berber) culture developed over the course of two millennia. Decades after the community’s dissolution, the once-vibrant Jewish heritage these sites embody is ubiquitous yet hidden, seemingly indelible but inevitably fading. Where it still exists, it does so behind unmarked walls, just off treacherous dirt trails, deep within mountains, in the annual pilgrimages (hillulot) that attract hundreds of expatriates — and increasingly only in the memories of aging Muslim former neighbors as well as the superstitions that they have bequeathed to their children and grandchildren. D’fina means “covered” or “buried” in the Moroccan dialect, a fitting–and, in some cases, literal–description of what remains.
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Moroccan Jewish Story

Today there is a growing lack of knowledge and amnesia of the Jewish element of the Moroccan cultural identity. If in 1947 there were more than 270,000 Jews living in Morocco, today (2018) there are only around 2,500 Jews left. These numbers are reducing as time passes by, so what we are actually witnessing these days is the disappearing of the Jewish presence in Morocco. The Virtual Tours offer everyone the opportunity to visit the Jewish Moroccan heritage sites across Morocco. Following the disappearing of the Moroccan Jewish community, these sites are left to tell the story that must be told and heard. The tours are accessible easily any time and from any place. All you needed is a smartphone, a tablet or a computer, and a connection to the internet. You can also upgrade your experience using a VR headset which is supported (use the VR botton to switch the mode).
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World Jewish Travel was thrilled at #IMTM 2024 to present a copy of the WJT Jewish Silk Road Pressbook to the CEO of the Azerbaijan National Tourism Board Florian Sengstschmid and Jamilya Talibzade its Israeli representative Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB).

The Pressbook celebrates the one year anniversary of the Jewish Silk Road Portal launch, an amazing example of using Jewish travel as a means of cultural diplomacy, whilst highlighting the significant Jewish contribution to the ancient trade route. Kudos to our participating partners from the Kiriaty Foundation (Turkey), National Board of Tourism of #Georgia, National Board of Tourism of #Uzbekistan, and Israeli Embassy of #India.

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🌍 Celebrating One Year of the Jewish Silk Road Portal World Jewish Travel was thrilled at #IMTM 2024 to present a copy of the WJT Jewish Silk Road Pressbook to the CEO of the Azerbaijan National Tourism Board Florian Sengstschmid and Jamilya Talibzade its Israeli representative Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB). The Pressbook celebrates the one year anniversary of the Jewish Silk Road Portal launch, an amazing example of using Jewish travel as a means of cultural diplomacy, whilst highlighting the significant Jewish contribution to the ancient trade route. Kudos to our participating partners from the Kiriaty Foundation (Turkey), National Board of Tourism of #Georgia, National Board of Tourism of #Uzbekistan, and Israeli Embassy of #India. See the overwhelming reaction from the press, by downloading our free pressbook. Special thanks to Moshe Gilad of the @haaretzcom for highlighting this forgotten but important story in the Galeria section of the newspaper and available to download on WJT. 👉Link to WJT Jewsih Silk Rad Pressbook and more is in our bio

🌍 Celebrating One Year of the Jewish Silk Road Portal

World Jewish Travel was thrilled at #IMTM 2024 to present a copy of the WJT Jewish Silk Road Pressbook to the CEO of the Azerbaijan National Tourism Board Florian Sengstschmid and Jamilya Talibzade its Israeli representative Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB).

The Pressbook celebrates the one year anniversary of the Jewish Silk Road Portal launch, an amazing example of using Jewish travel as a means of cultural diplomacy, whilst highlighting the significant Jewish contribution to the ancient trade route. Kudos to our participating partners from the Kiriaty Foundation (Turkey), National Board of Tourism of #Georgia, National Board of Tourism of #Uzbekistan, and Israeli Embassy of #India.

See the overwhelming reaction from the press, by downloading our free pressbook. Special thanks to Moshe Gilad of the @haaretzcom for highlighting this forgotten but important story in the Galeria section of the newspaper and available to download on WJT.

👉Link to WJT Jewsih Silk Rad Pressbook and more is in our bio ...

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