Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home by Levin Iris

Author:Levin, Iris. [Iris Levin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317961796
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

It is interesting to note how Avraham referred to being ‘Moroccan’ as if it involved some essential quality that belonged to Moroccaness. Avraham understood being Moroccan as something that is both performed and performative (Sullivan 2012).

Being a Jewish minority in a Muslim country has most likely contributed to the harmony and closeness among Jewish families in the Mellah. Even though relationships with Muslims were very good at that time (before 1948), Jews still formed a minority and sometimes were treated by the authorities with suspicion (Levy 1997). Almost everybody around the neighbourhood was Jewish, and the community was extraordinarily united.

The buildings and furniture in the houses had a unique materiality to them. Most participants described these simple houses with great detail, illustrating on the one hand their modest character but on the other hand their unique colourful details. Sonia recalled a house of a distant relative, which she described as paradise:

Again these wooden doors, you open and suddenly you see a different world, a paradise, it’s this patio, full with vegetation, full, and I still remember it was geranium. And the house was big and they were really wealthy.

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