Selected records from the National Library of Morocco
Extent and Medium
31,177 digital images, JPEG
48 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Driss Khrouz
Archival History
Maktabah al-Waṭanīyah lil-Mamlakah al-Maghribīyah
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
From the Maktabah al-Waṭanīyah lil-Mamlakah al-Maghribīyah (National Library of the Moroccan Kingdom). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in April 2009.
Scope and Content
Contains mostly regulations, correspondence, reports and the like, compiled by French authorities in Morocco. Main topics are: legislation related to Jews; Moroccan and Algerian laws concerning Jews; professions prohibited to Jews (1941-1942 records); records on taxes levied on the Jewish community (1940-1945); decrees concerning nationality and citizenship of Jews; 1930-1935 tax matters related to the Jewish community; Jewish cemeteries; Jewish life in Fez; German activity in Morocco before and during the war including notes of the DAP (Deutsche Arbeitspartei); activities in the Spanish zone of Morocco; and German propaganda aimed towards Muslims. The collection also contains periodicals. Titles of the periodicals ( bulk 1925-1945) include: Annales nord Marocaines, Bulletin de l’association des anciens eleve de l’alliance Israelite Rabat, Noar, Revue des etudes islamiques, L’avenir illustre, L’univers Israelite: journal des conservations du judaisme, and (1864-1913) Bulletin de l’alliance Israelite.
System of Arrangement
Organized into two parts: 1. Documents, 1935-1945; 2. Periodicals, 1864-1945.
Subjects
- Jews--Morocco--Politics and government.
- Fès (Morocco)
- Jewish cemeteries--Morocco.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Morocco--History.
- Propaganda, German.
Genre
- Document
- Periodicals.