Jüdische Geschichte(n) in Marokko. Wandel, Erinnerung und Dialog

Lecture and talk with Abderrahmane Ammar as part of the exhibition "Yalla. Arab-Jewish Touches"

Moroccan Jewry can look back on over 1,500 years of history. Although there are only just under 3,000 Jews left in the country today, traces of Jewish life permeate Morocco in many ways: in culture, in crafts, in religious traditions, but also in Jewish place names and holy pilgrimage sites. The importance of Jewish heritage was even written into the Moroccan constitution in 2011. To this day, questions of identity, memory and coexistence continue to raise new perspectives: How is Jewish life perceived in Morocco? What images of Israel and the Shoah shape society? And what does this shared heritage mean for the present and the future?

Dr. Abderrahmane Ammar is an Islamic scholar and sociologist and works as a TV journalist in Berlin.