Friday, y 6 193 iNE DETROIT OMB NEWS , Moroccan By ARNOLD AGES __. — -- Jewish Tales Published in Canada by Professor Sephardic Jews of Moroccan tales when he was _ap- Elbaz pointed out that the part of oral history it was TORONTO (JTA) — origin living in Canada. In proached by Canada's Moroccan Sephardim who natural for them to become mation to be found among a population often victimized Andre Elbaz, a professor of an interview with the Museum of Man. "That in- came to Canada were under involved in collecting and French at Carleton Univer- Jewish Telegraphic stitution has been compil- no danger of physical vio- transmitting these mate- and persecuted by its Arab hosts. sity in Ottawa, has just Agency, Elbaz, who was ing folk tales of all kinds of . lence in Morocco when they rials." written a book celebrating born in Meknes, indicated Canadian ethnic groups arrived here in the 1960s "One of the interesting the oral tradition of that his book, "Tales of the such as the Inuit (Eskimo) and 1970s. differences I noted be- DESIGNS Canadian Sephardim" (Fit- and I thought that the Moroccan Jews came tween women's stories • • • • • • • • • zhenry & Whiteside) was Moroccan Jews in Canada IN DECORATOR • have them • written in response to an deserved recognition as to Canada because the and men's is that the LAMINATE.S . Canadian Jewish Con- former often reflected • REMEMBER YOUR AFFAIR' • invitation from the well." gress was able to obtain a secular influences while • • Museum of Man in Ottawa. For high quality The Carleton profes- preferred immigration the latter mirrored more with • • Formica Elbaz grew up in Morocco, sor, who has written ex- status for them he said. pious preoccupations. • COMPUTER PORTRAITS • came to maturity in France tensively on French- "Secondly, Moroccan The reason is simple; men Always at • Jew themes, ex - there completed his Jewish -1 • Framed Pictures, • university studies in plained that after the dis- Jews who came to Canada went to the synagogue. a great discount There they studied and were highly literate in • Posters, T-Shirts, Etc. • French literature. "I have so solution of the Moroccan French and since many of read from the - Torah, From our designs • • -BANQUETS, PARTIES • • been interested in the folk Jewish community (in them had been associated Midrash and Talmud. or yours...for your the wake of Israel's 's birth home or office • WEDDINGS, SHOWERS • tales of Moroccan Jews ever and subsequent Arab with the Alliance Israelite The women,-on the other since I accompanied my Universelle, they were ex- hand, stayed home or • MITZVAHS, ETC. It doesn't have • father to synagogue as a pressures) most of the cellent teachers. They were mingled with the Moslem to cost a fortune • • young boy in Meknes," he members emigrated to naturally attracted to Population, acquiring ...only look like it! said. "I have vivid recollec- Israel. The second largest Franco-phone Montreal and from that contact stories tions of the stories of imagi- group of Moroccan Jews of a more secular bent." became quickly accepted in Specializing in: • PHOTOGRAPHIC : nation and wonder that settled in France. that city as teachers. An Elbaz indicated that the • Tables • Wall Units The smallest segment, COMPUTER IMAGES, INCA were spun by Jewish men about 15,000 made its way irony: one ofthe heads of the tales of the Moroccan • Desks • Cubes • • and women." • Shelves • Bedroom Protestant School Board of Sephardim which he has • (31 3) 851-5977 Elbaz jumped at the to Canada. There the • Groupings Montreal was a Moroccan collected in Canada show a Also located in Tally Hall opportunity to compile an French-speaking Sephar- • Jew." spirit of triumphalism that • • Fooinfroonetiro arm • anthology of Sephardic folk dim found a con g enial foyerr Call LOIS Elbaz has no illusions was not always in accord in Montreal, Quebec City -about what life was like for with the actual conditions of 540-2270 and two other centers, Ot- Jews in Morocco. "Unlike life for Jews in Morocco. The INTRODUCTORY OFFER: tawa and Toronto. the Jews of Iraq who were fictional rendering of Save ad for additional Elbaz, in executing his discount through May 14, 1983 closely integrated within Jewish successes via the survey of Moroccan folk the Arab population, we tales was a natural subli- PARTY PLANNERS tales, was involved in a Moroccan Jews lived in a CENTERPIECES Originally , Designed double task — an audit of an separate environment cut (FLORAL AND CANDY THEMES) important literary tradition off from the Arab popula- and a return to his own tion. Our culture was °DANCE SOUNDS FAVORS — PAPER GOODS — RENTALS roots,. The book, which re- French and we tended to UNLIMITED sulted from his research, INVITATIONS and STATIONERY 20% OFF look do'wn upon Arab was written in French but it society. In a sense we lived are orur specia lity, high is the English translation in a Jewish state-within-a- quality our performance. 21540 W. 11 - Mile Rd., Sfld. (by appt. only) . BEY KURT'S with a stunning series of state.". Outstanding in music, lighting, teaching and dance performance. DORIS CORNFIELD illustrations that has ap- 355 1590 That being the case, For . a complete evening of entertainment _ peared first. _ Elbaz was asked why it was at your next party, Bar Mitzva, wedding or- special occasion call that so many of the stories in his book reflect the im- 588•9499 - Art and Jan 736 print of Berber-Arab cul- Call early for available open dates 6 ture. Elbaz wrote in the in- troduction to his work that the "jnun" — malevolent Moslem spirits — animate many of the stories told by Moroccan Jews. •• • • • Call • : • 9aeorite %Mu; liC DANCE PARTIES - 2 ma, H 25th 25th Says Elbaz: "It is true that we Moroccan Jews lived in an environment that was totally Jewish. But that does not mean that we were sealed off hermetically from the Arabs:We had daily con- tact with them. We spoke their language., We in- teracted with them com- mercially if not socially. Our women went to the `suk' (the market) and encountered the Moroc- can Arabs, As a result of all these contacts much of the Moslem folk tradi- tions become assfinilated into the Moroccan Jewish consciousness." • A Series of Twelve Salon Facials • The Day of Beaute' • Body Massage • Nailcare and Pedicures Elbaz discovered this dur- ing the many taping ses- sions he conducted with Sephardic men and women from Marocco during re- search jaunts. In the folk tales which he has assembled (only 80 of some 300 made it into his book), Elbaz pointed out that those told by Jewish men are different from those recounted by Jewish women: "The reason that women are so prominently repre- sented is because their cir- cumstances made them story-tellers. Like many of their Ashkenazic counter- parts, the Moroccan Sephardic women were il- literate. 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