(6 Apr 2025)
MOROCCO JEWISH HERITAGE
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Asilah, Morocco – 16 March 2025
1. Pan left from alley of the Mellah quarter of Asilah to synagogue Kahal
2. Tilt down of entrance to synagogue Kahal
3. Close of photo of synagogue Kahal before restoration work hanging on wall
4. Tilt down/pan left of Aaron Abikzer, vice-president of the Jewish Community of Tangier, Sonia Cohen Toledano
5. Various of synagogue
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Aaron Abikzer, vice-president of the Jewish Community of Tangier:
"When I arrived, I discovered the synagogue in complete ruins. We decided with the people of Asilah, old men, to restore the synagogue. We restored it with great love. All the people of Asilah drew me what the synagogue looked like, and with their drawings, I had the synagogue restored to its original state, including everything in the walls, even the pews. They gave me pieces of pews, and I restored them."
7. Pan right from visitors sitting in synagogue to ark
8. Tilt down of Torah scrolls in ark
9. Tilt up of synagogue
10. Pan right of photos of Asilah Jewish families hanging on wall of synagogue
11. Tilt down from two "Ketouba" weeding in Asilah in 1935 (right) and 1947 (left), to exhibited objects
12. Pan right of exhibited objects
13. Wide of visitors in synagogue
14. Pan right of wooden roof of synagogue
15. Mid of synagogue light fitting
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Sonia Cohen Toledano, responsible for the preservation of cultural heritage of the Jewish Community of Tangier:
"For years, I had kept religious objects from various synagogues that had been closed. And with that, I was able to fill the synagogue, which I also did with the museum in Tangier and others. You see, even the carpets, they’re all old carpets, especially, that belonged to families and that we reused."
17. Tilt down/pan left of Mikveh
18. Pan right from Mikveh to oven attached to synagogue Kahal
19. Mid of oven
20. Tilt down from wooden roof of Mikveh room to water basins
21. Pan of water basins
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Sonia Cohen Toledano, responsible for the preservation of cultural heritage of the Jewish Community of Tangier:
"It’s as if you were going back 200 years, because this Mikveh was almost 200 years old. And the special thing is that there’s an oven that heated the water in the hammam on the first floor. The women would go up, clean themselves properly, bathe properly, and then go down to the Mikveh to purify themselves. The Mikveh has specific rules that are given in the Torah, and the woman purifies herself when she enters, she kneels and submerges herself three times. When she emerges from this water, the rabbis say it’s like a baby emerging from its mother’s womb."
23. Mid of stone stairs leading to first roof of Mikveh
24. Mid of first roof of Mikveh
25. Tilt down of another room of Mikveh
26. Pan right of roof of Mikveh room
27. Tilt down of Mikveh wooden door
28. Various of entrance to Mikveh
29. SOUNDBITE (French) Aaron Abikzer, vice-president of the Jewish Community of Tangier:
"We asked for these places to become state monuments and state heritage. Now we’ve succeeded. After two years, we received an announcement that the Minister of Culture has registered these three places as state heritage, I’m very happy."
30. Pan right of Jewish cemetery of Asilah in front of sea
31. Various of tombs
32. Various of entrance to Jewish cemetery of Asilah
33. SOUNDBITE (French) Aaron Abikzer, vice-president of the Jewish Community of Tangier:
34. Various of Asilah overlooking Atlantic Ocean
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