The Convergence of Judaism and Islam. Religious, Scientific, and Cultural Dimensions

292 r Efrat E. Aviv composers in the mid-nineteenth century. Composers Chaim Alzarki (who died in 1913) and Eliya Levy, known as ...

External Cultural Influences on the Jewish Community of Izmir r 293 The Manner of Song Copying In his book Krach shel Romi (City ...

294 r Efrat E. Aviv Ladino. Around 1908 Shir ha-geula (Song of Redemption) was written by a teacher in the Jewish school in Sili ...

External Cultural Influences on the Jewish Community of Izmir r 295 these cheerful maccams... the public does not awaken to do t ...

296 r Efrat E. Aviv together, so that when a young Jew wanted to marry a Muslim, he or she had to convert to Islam. This phenome ...

External Cultural Influences on the Jewish Community of Izmir r 297 Henri Nahum, “Yehudey Izmir BeSof HaMe’a Ha-19 Uvetchilat H ...

298 r Efrat E. Aviv Edwin Seroussi, “HaMakam HaTurki BeShirat Yehudey Sepharad,” Apiryon 32 (1994): 43–44; Molcho, “Lekorot Keh ...

16 Poverty and Charity in a Moroccan City A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, 1750–1912 Jessica Marglin The leaders ...

300 r Jessica Marglin to provide for the Jewish poor in Meknes was undoubtedly religiously motivated, charity also served a poli ...

A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, 1750–1912 r 301 replace Fez as the center of Jewish learning in Morocco.^7 Alth ...

302 r Jessica Marglin those who relied entirely on the community and on individual charity for their livelihood. They included t ...

A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, 1750–1912 r 303 many Jewish and Muslim scholars who received charity were relat ...

304 r Jessica Marglin Although not a source of contempt, everyone considered poverty shameful for those who experienced it. The ...

A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, 1750–1912 r 305 their Muslim neighbors’ more diffuse approach.^40 This is undou ...

306 r Jessica Marglin treasurer (the gizbar or the gabbai), who would go from house to house once weekly, gathering money and br ...

A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, 1750–1912 r 307 a lump-sum were unregulated.^60 Yet in the 1820s a series of ta ...

308 r Jessica Marglin poor—fell under their supervision.^70 The use of heqdeshim as a source of charity was closely related to I ...

A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, 1750–1912 r 309 charity’s central role in the leadership structure of Meknes. O ...

310 r Jessica Marglin that Jewish leaders’ conception of poverty as permanent did not prevent them from offering both immediate ...

A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, 1750–1912 r 311 non-Jews in both Europe and the Middle East; many community lea ...