In August, Morocco and Tunisia each opened a museum dedicated to the Jewish memory of their country.
A museum was inaugurated in the city of Nabeul, located in the northeast of Tunisia, in order to celebrate the Judeo-Nabeulian identity.
For the occasion, the representative of the Jewish committee of Nabeul, Albert Chiche, expressed his desire to show the museum to children from primary school. “The idea is to let them know that our community existed in Nabeul and continues to exist,” he told the tunisian media The Press.
On the Moroccan side, the kingdom this month opened a museum space also dedicated to Jewish memory, in the city of Tangier. The Megorachim, Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, had taken refuge there following the anti-Jewish persecutions of 1391 and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
This museum of Jewish memory, called Beit Yehouda, located in the old medina, crowns a rehabilitation project