Brass Trays	Menorahs	Khamsas	Torah Crowns

Yads	Pendants	Sephardic Treasures

With the growing domination of Islam, Moroccan Jews who had, long before 69 AD been the first skilled workers for the inland mines when Phoenician traders sailed the North African coast, grew increasingly marginalized. However, they actively established themselves as traders, metalworkers, goldsmiths and silversmiths. Not being allowed to own land, Jews in the Anti-Atlas villages often became itinerant jewelers making religious objects for the Jewish community but living side-by-side with Berbers in all other daily activities, who eventually adapted the same techniques in their silver work. Mellah, or walled ghettos, developed as self-governing Jewish urban communities which were greatly enriched with the influx of the Andalusian Jews forced to leave Spain in 1492. At the beginning of the 20th century, rural Jews migrated towards the commercial cities of Tiznit,Taroudannt, Essaouira, and Marrakech. Protected by King Mohammed V during World War II, Morocco's 300,000 Jews were fine craftsmen and evidence of their artistic and religious heritage may be seen in the newly created Musée de Patrimoine Juif et Marocain in Casablanca.