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I II ti Th.TROYF JEWISR /IRON tat
THE JEWS OF MOROCCO
Rosh Hashonah Greetings Extended to All My
Jewish Clientele and Friends
A News Letter from Tangier.
By ISRAEL SHECHTER
When Ahmed de Marango guided
I us through the Jewish quarter of
Tangier, lying to the north of the
Gran Socco or Moorish market
place, he detailed his own opinion
of the Jew. Ahmed could neither
read nor write, but as he himself
reiterated, he knew everything.
He had picked up a speaking
knowledge of French, Spanish and
English besides his native Moor-
ish in the Tangier gutters where
he grew up—and a smattering of
local history. Ile is one of the best
guides in the city. When Ahmed
spoke of the Tangier Jew in lance
yet eloquent English, I had a
dreadful recollection of college ac-
quaintances slurring the Jews be-
fore me, not knowing Ilse to be one
of them, and of a wealthy New
carpenter of Italian ex-
traction damning his more econom-
ical Jewish competitors from the
Bronx.
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"They put their money in here,"
said Ahmed pointing to his bosom,
"and keep their hand on it all of
the time. Once in a week they eat
a half pound meat, once in six
weeks a chicken. They spend noth-
ing, but make business. They get
a fine house, fittest in all Tangier,
and live big."
A Nrtu tear ffirsgagr
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, we extend to the
Jewish people of Detroit and Michigan our hearty
congratulations upon the great measure of peace and
prosperity which the old year has brought, our best
wishes for the New Year and especially our sense of
satisfaction in the, increasing observance by your
people of this ancient festival and all that it implies.
The great Jewish traditions should be preserved not
only as a source of pride and satisfaction to your own
people but also as a reminder of the great contribu-
tion which such a people can make and should make
to the development and enrichment of American life.
It affords us great pleasure to wish you all a very
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
A. B. See Elevator Co., Inc.
56 Henry Street
Detroit, Mich.
Or else, according to Ahmed,
they go themselves or send their
sons to America, do business there,
and save up a great deal of money.
Then they do come back to Tan-
gier and deal in foreign exchange
and multiply their fortunes rapid-
ly. As a matter of fact, the first
Jew we met in Tangier—it was be-
fore Ahmed had guided us about
the city—was a young money-
changer. lie revealed himsalf a
Jew when I looked curiously at his
name spelled out in Latin, Arabic
and Hebrew characters, Ile was
but a few yards from the British
bank, and on the day when the
: ban kwas exchanging 6.60 pesetas
for one dollar, he was offering 6
and curiously enough, getting it.
Resemble Mohammedans.
Meanwhile we had had opportun-
ity in our rambling walks through
the serpentine lanes of this ancient
town to gain at least a superficial
knowledge of the Jew and the pe-
culiar environment in which he
finds himself. Tangier is a Moroc-
can seaport of about 50,000 people,
of whom half are Jews and Chris-
tians and the rest Moors—Berbers
and their Arab conquerors after
centuries of intermingling. We
learned later that there were about
1(1,0(10 Jews in Tangier. During
I the first night and morning we
found it inmosible to distinguish I
between Jew and Moor and Jew
and Spaniard. Those in native cos-
tume of ragged burnouse and heel-
less sandals could not be told apart
from the Moors in similar dress.
They were equally unkempt and
dirty. Men dressed in European
clothes passed for Spaniard or
Frenchman. For all we could tell
there were no Jews in Tangier.
Then we discerned a tell-tale
mark. The Moor or Arab wears a
red fez if still a bachelor and a
turban if married. The Jew in
native costume is marked by his
• small, flat skull-cap. We learned
I that of the entire Jewish popula.
tion of Tangier only about 500 of
the older men still persist in the
- ' There is a well known rabbinical nh aatvi iyne dress,
breeesns ,
zrospaelsityn clothes
adopted
story told concerning Rabbi Akiba
at the time of the Roman persecu- by the young men and women and
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_ - Lions which ultimately resulted in the more progressive among the
his martrydom. Akiba went on ' elders. In features and build they
teaching the Law despite the Ro- were not to he differentiated from
R4 man prohibition, and one of his col- the Mohammedan, nor in complex-
la leagues thought that he was run- ion, all being uniformly of olive
ning a very great danger. He made I skin. The same short frizzled
- representations to Akiba, who re- beards are worn by Moor and old
plied by telling him a parable. Jew-, and sharp features and pierc-
There was once a fox, he said, who I ing, steady eyes bespeak a common
M..* cast longing eyes at some fat fish ancestry. Many, of the Jews are
that he saw swimming about in tall, rugged and weatherbeat"n
the river. He had no means of like desert- roaming nomads.
catching them
e rte
h
tdt to d e- Others are short and wiry even
coy the fish on the hank. "Why dapper; few are paunchy and fat
do you not join me here on the like so many of their brothers in
land?" he said to them. "Look Europe and America.
what dangers you run. Fisher-
In the yard-wide crooked alleys
men are constantly casting their that pass for streets in Tangier
nets and lines into the river the Jew, Christian and Moor and
to catch you, whereas here the omnipresent donkey push past
you will be safe." But the one another in the dense throngs
fish were not to be beguiled. "It with as much unconcern as on
is true," they replied, "that we run Broadway or Market street, Phila-
certain dangers in the river, but Idelphia. Noise, smells and hustle-
the water is our natural element. ' bastle are everywhere, but discrim-
If we incur danger in our natural , Motion, if any exists, is absolutely
element what greater perils await inconspicuous.
as on dry land, which is quite un-
"There I. No Hawking."
suited to us!" Similarly, said
Moor, Jew and Spaniard keep
Akiba, the Torah is our natural
' hole-in-the-wall shops side by site
element. If we run danger by teach-
in the same streets and the newly-
ing and studying th • Torah h ow
. arrived
can tell one
m u ch
for
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almIo
iarirds:n vd3u1;ilie t life - g usif
ivi n g smau non mien so
g a s
source from which our spiritual
its neighbor, with just enough
being is nourished! And he refused
room for the shopkeeper to nestle
to stop teaching.
among his wares. There is no
I hawking, every article of merchan-
An evil impulse is at first thin t dise whether of focal, clothing or
as a spider's web, but it soon be- I utensil is exposed to view, and the
comes strong as a cart-rope—The trader waits patiently, alMost in-
Talmud.
differently, for customers. The
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AKIDA AND THE FISHES
JOSEPH GREENBERG
Luger, cleaner and more up-to-date
stores in Tangier, we learned, were
almost invariably owned and oper-
ated by Jews, except for a few or-
iental art shops run by Hindus.
Though there are no statistics to
show this, it seems likely that the
Jews in Tangier are wealthier—
as wealth is counted here—in pro-
portion to their numbers than in
any similar city in the world. Still,
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as in every other place there is the
Formerly 718 Hammond Bldg.
' poor Jewish mauler us well as
T'angier's West End Avenue.
It seems that in order to persist
the Jew must have a vanished
greatness to look back upon. The
American Jewry, drawn largely i!;O
from Ukrainia, Lithuania, Poland,
Germany and Austria, must look all
,;
the way back to the Temple or its
lost glory. These Jews have ex-
.
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