00:01a museum dedicated to Moroccan Jewish culture now stands in the heart of faith
00:06offering visitors an insight into the history traditions and heritage of a
00:11community that's been part of Morocco for centuries we received our heritage
00:19from our histories and we shared them together for example the arrival of
00:23Sephardic Jews after the Reconquista of Spain and also the fact that Judaism was
00:28present in the Babel world well before the Georgian era all this led to something
00:34specific happening in Morocco between the Amazigh Arabs Judaism and Islam that
00:39shaped this Moroccan identity on the lamazerity on the Arabism the Judaism Islam
00:46kia sculpt a set personality located in the city's ancient Jewish quarter the
00:52museum highlights the shared history of Jewish Arab Amazigh Spanish and French
00:57cultures that have helped shape phase we have pictures tombstones writings and
01:05manuscripts that were written in Morocco this shows the Jews really existed here
01:11in this country and that they had good relationships with their Muslim
01:15neighbors they lived in peace and tranquility and the museum is a lesson for
01:22the young people the museum is a lesson for the young people the exhibition features a wide
01:30range of objects including traditional clothing artworks archives and historical
01:35manuscripts written in Hebrew some put it on me maybe we're only 3,000 but we
01:42represent 1 million Moroccan Jews in the world who are deeply attached to their
01:46Moroccan identity don't don't believe that the Jewish community could be reduced to
01:52those who live here as a Julia easy resident rock today what we're talking about is the
02:01phenomenon of belonging to a nation don't don't fall say then fellow men the
02:07partners a nation although the Jewish community in Morocco is now small its heritage
02:14heritage continues to resonate far beyond the country's borders
