Jews in Many Lands: Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey

2005

Arabic

Directed by: Eugene Rosow

(90 mins) This documentary intersperses interviews with descendants of original merchant settlers along with art reproductions, animated maps, and archival footage, which reconstruct the Jews' history and life-style in Morocco until World War II. The documentary follows the emigration of Moroccan Jews after Moroccan independence to the newly established state of Israel, France and Canada focusing on their adaptation to foreign cultures and also looks at the remnant of Jews that chose to remain in Morocco.

In English, Arabic, French and Hebrew with English subtitles.