Tinghir Jerusalem echos from the mellah

Summary

Tinghir, Morocco, used to have a thriving Jewish community. By the mid-1960s though, they, along with the other 250,000 Jews of Morocco, had left for Israel. They were the targets of a successful Z...

Tinghir, Morocco, used to have a thriving Jewish community. By the mid-1960s though, they, along with the other 250,000 Jews of Morocco, had left for Israel. They were the targets of a successful Zionist campaign that extolled the virtues of life in Israel and encouraged emigration. Fifty years later, filmmaker Kamal Hachkar sets out to learn the history of these people that has been largely forgotten in their homeland.

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