mellah

From Salé, Zacuto traveled inland to the capital city of Fez, and there, in the neighborhood known as the mellah, where the Jews of Fez were domiciled, he found lodging in the family of a well-known physician.

Archive 2009-12-01 Megan Arkenberg 2009

From Salé, Zacuto traveled inland to the capital city of Fez, and there, in the neighborhood known as the mellah, where the Jews of Fez were domiciled, he found lodging in the family of a well-known physician.

Ruby Megan Arkenberg 2009

Jews were forced by that world of Islamic civilization into ghettoes (the "mellah"), centuries before Hitler and the Nazis.

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Jews were forced by that world of Islamic civilization into ghettoes (the "mellah"), centuries before Hitler and the Nazis.

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Arabs mostly lived in the old medina, Fes el Bali, and its 13th-century offshoot Fes Jdid, which also enclosed the Jewish quarter or mellah.

Finding Your Own Place in Fes Paul Ames 2010

Likewise, girls in the new, prosperous, European quarters outside the mellah began school earlier than did those who lived inside the poorer, more conservative Jewish quarter (Donat, 1963).

Morocco: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009

However, this phenomenon was more frequent among middle and upper class, better educated women who lived in the modern European quarters in the cities, than among lower class, less educated, more traditional women who lived in the mellah (Donat).

Morocco: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009

Of the 5,049 women from the mellah of Marrakesh employed during these years, 1,935 poor women worked outside their homes doing sewing, weaving, embroidery, as laundresses and in drawing water.

Morocco: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009

By the end of the nineteenth century, this close proximity, natural increase and the migration of Jews from the villages to the cities created extremely crowded living conditions within the Jewish ghetto (mellah) of the major cities.

Morocco: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009

Middle class girls were freer to explore new options in lifestyles, possibilities and gender definitions than poor girls in the mellah, who were expected to conform to their more traditional gender definitions and learn housekeeping skills by helping their mothers with housework and caring for younger siblings.

Morocco: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009