Talk:Mellah

A fact from Mellah appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 April 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto?

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Forced?[edit]

"After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 most Moroccan Jews were forced to emigrate to the new Jewish state. As a result, nowadays mellahs are no longer Jewish neighborhoods." - This is simply not true. None of the Moroccan Jews were forced to emigrate. Many chose to do so. In fact, in the 50s, the Moroccan government briefly curtailed emigration to Israel. There are villages in the High Atlas to this very day that are without a local blacksmith (a common Jewish profession in Morocco) due to this fact. Smokey Russell 18:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about mellah only; it's not about the History of the Jews in Morocco, which happens to be a separate article. Feel free to add material on the recent history of Moroccan Jews there, but here it doesn't belong, unfortunately. Pecher ^Talk 20:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How much economic, social, political,etc. pressure does it take to create a situation of force? Phil Burnstein (talk) 18:31, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite article[edit]

Why does this article repeatedly say "Mellah is a..." rather than "A mellah is a..."? It reads very strange. Babajobu 02:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

mellah[edit]

Hey, I don't know about Moroccan dialect, but in UAE mellah just means your neighborhood.

Source[edit]

This source is worth incorporating - p970-971 of Encyclopedia of Diasporas. It provides a clearer explanation for the creation of the mellahs than this article currently shows. Oncenawhile (talk) 00:20, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Additional Sources[edit]

Here are some additional sources to look at:

Goldberg, Harvey. “THE MELLAHS OF SOUTHERN MOROCCO: REPORT OF A SURVEY.” The Maghreb Review, vol. 8, no. 3, ser. 4, 1983, pp. 61–69.

Gottreich, Emily Benichou. Mellah of Marrakesh : Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City, Indiana University Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Miller, Susan Gilson, et al. “Inscribing Minority Space in the Islamic City: The Jewish Quarter of Fez (1438-1912).” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 60, no. 3, 2001, pp. 310–327. JSTOR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericaschuman (talk • contribs) 14:57, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Revising/expanding history section[edit]

Just making some notes because I've made and may still make big changes, so editors can discuss here if needed. I've already revised the first part of the history section by adapting material already I had written and sourced for the Mellah of Fez article. (There might also be other material there which could be useful here, but I leave it to other editors to decide.) The previous information that was there is still essentially present except some details that I couldn't clearly source have been left out and the explanation/timeline of the creation of the Mellah has been nuanced by adding the varying theories/versions I've been able to find in scholarly articles so far.
The following subsections also need to be reviewed and expanded of course. For Marrakesh, there appears to be scholarly agreement on exactly when the Mellah was created which isn't reflected here. The Mouassine Mosque and maybe Kasbah of Marrakesh pages have relevant material to adapt, and I'll try to do so while reviewing if any of the unsourced material currently here can be kept. Recent history is probably a bigger task, but I'll add anything if I can. Cheers, Robert Prazeres (talk) 17:17, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]