A Pogrom in Fez

Avraham Elmaleh

1912

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We have awoken from a horrible nightmare that I believed myself unable to describe to you.

The sack of the Mellah [the Jewish quarter of the city] by the mutinous Sherifian troops began at midday on Wednesday, the 17th of this month. I had just left the school and had sat down to lunch, when I was informed that shots were being exchanged at the…

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Avraham Elmaleh

1878–1939

Born in Tangiers, where his father was a rabbi and judge, Avraham Elmaleh (al-Maliḥ) was educated at the modern school established in Tangiers by the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) and would go on to dedicate his adult life to the modernizing work of the Alliance. He first served alongside his wife, Messody Pariente, as an assistant in the AIU school in Beirut; they returned to Morocco in 1906 to work at the AIU school in Mazagan (1906–1909), before being appointed headmaster and headmistress of the AIU schools in Fez (1909–1916). Elmaleh was a champion for the rights of Jews in Morocco, and he advocated for their fair treatment to the Muslim authorities on several notable occasions.

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