Moroccan Jewish first-places

Contraction, Fabrication, Dissipation

Bibliographic Data

ID5701400
AuthorsMaria Cardeira Da Silva (0000-0002-7300-9482, CRIA Centre of Research in Anthropology, NOVA FCSH, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Lisbon, Portugal, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume24
Issue2
Pages167-180
Publication date2018-02-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13527258.2017.1362582
OpenAlexW2747653845
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited27

The idea of first places is inevitably linked with diasporas. At the heart of this idea and since the very start, there has always been the Jewish case. The diaspora of the Jews of Morocco, in the periphery, was presented by some authors, as a good case with which to relativize the theoretical pertinence and conceptual inspiration of the Jewish model. Focusing on Jewish history, heritage, and travelling in Morocco, I will continue to question the paradigm of social studies based on the bi-polar center-diaspora model. I will testify to the emergence and fabrication of new Jewish ‘first-places’, a process attending the aging and departure of the last Jews of Morocco and with the support of the Kingdom, while following current, and disruptive trends of contraction, commutation and dissipation of ‘first-places’ in different Jewish practices and narratives. The individualization of religious practice in post-secular societies allows and includes – and often merges – secular, ethnic and political approaches of what once was purely designated as religious identity. Heritage Moroccan landscape (and landscaping) allows different approaches and thus probably why one can think of it as an emerging ‘first-place’ for some

Archaeology · Cultural heritage · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Jewish history · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

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