Talk:History of Moroccan Jews

Deletion of factual material / geographic location of Morocco

Why has the category, Jews of West Africa, deleted? Is not Morocco part of West Africa? This seems cut and dry NPOV. Dogru144 18:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Berber jewess

Last edits by 84.109.96.88 look a bit POV and w/o any source. The use of the term heroic is certainly a POV one. The other thing is that the additions lack any reference or sources like "the adopted arab son who btrayed her..." I'll fix that and wait for any sources to revert it back as per 84.109.96.88 edits -- Svest 21:17, 25 October 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}[reply]

There seems to be confusion on how she died. This page [1] (google translation [2]) in French says she was decapitated. This page [3] in Spanish says she died next to a well. This article [4] says she committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. The jewish encyclopedia says she fell near a well [5] indicating she was murdered quite possibly by decapitation. Arniep 22:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is what I meant Arniep. As long as there are many versions, than we should include them all (with sources) and not base only on one version. If you see, the whole article is a mirror of the Jewish Encyclopedia on the topic. Many things should be reviewed in the article. Hope I had time for that. Cheers -- Svest 19:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}[reply]

Very biased article

I thank you for the article, but I think it is very biased and even might be ideologically-motivated.

If the Jews of Morocco were so badly treated in the whole moroccan history, how come they lived there until the mid 20th century ??

Also saying that Moroccan citizens of jewish obedience are badly treated now in Morocco is very biased. There are some racists like everywhere but they are highly respected by the majority.

The article cited André Azoulay but forgot to tell about Abraham Serfaty and his role in fighting for a democratic Morocco.

Please feel free to improve the article, especially if you provide sources, since it sounds like you have a lot to add. As a note, much of this article was taken from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, which I don't think is particularly ideologically motivated, as it predated Israel by a half century, but obviously the modern info is from other sources. You may also want to sign your comments with ~~~~ --Goodoldpolonius2 18:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jews & Moors

I think there should be some refernce material to the Jewish peoples during Moorish rule. It seems a bit unrealistic that the Jewish people were treated severely. Espicially when there is historic evidence showing the opposite. I think there should e additional evidence showing the positive as well as the negative.--Gnosis 02:40, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citiation problems?

Please forgive my ignorance if that is the source of my confusion, but it seems to me that many of the citations given in this article are not complete, let alone verifiable. For example, consider citation number 4:

Marcus Fischer, l.c. pp. 32 et seq.

What, exactly, is l.c.? Again, it's been a while since I've had to include a formal citation, but it seems to me that this example (and many if not most others in this artical) lacks critical information to qualify as verifiable.