Talk:Mellah
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[edit] Forced?
"After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 most Moroccan Jews were forced to emigrate to the new Jewish state. As a result, nowadays mellahs are no longer Jewish neighborhoods." - This is simply not true. None of the Moroccan Jews were forced to emigrate. Many chose to do so. In fact, in the 50s, the Moroccan government briefly curtailed emigration to Israel. There are villages in the High Atlas to this very day that are without a local blacksmith (a common Jewish profession in Morocco) due to this fact. Smokey Russell 18:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- This article is about mellah only; it's not about the History of the Jews in Morocco, which happens to be a separate article. Feel free to add material on the recent history of Moroccan Jews there, but here it doesn't belong, unfortunately. Pecher Talk 20:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Indefinite article
Why does this article repeatedly say "Mellah is a..." rather than "A mellah is a..."? It reads very strange. Babajobu 02:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] mellah
Hey, I don't know about Moroccan dialect, but in UAE mellah just means your neighborhood.
