----------------------- Message requiring your approval ---------------------- From: David Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ha-Safran]: Two new books on Jews in Morocco
Dear Safranim-
A local author has just published the following two new books in French relating to Moroccan Jews. I thought some of you might find them of interest:
Title : Enfance Juive au Maroc: Paradis perdu? (Jewish Childhood in Morocco: Lost Paradise?)
Author: Nessim Sibony
Publisher: J.T. Productions, Los Angeles, August, 2003
420 pages including 4 pages of illustrations in black and white and 16 pages of illustrations in colors. Color cover.
Language: French
This is the first book entirely dedicated to the Jewish childhood in Morocco with 37 chapters about all the aspects of Jewish childhood and involvement of the Jewish children in the cultural and folkloric atmosphere of the Jewish daily life in Morocco, during the years of the French Protectorate.
The main chapters deal with the various stages of the childhood, the ludic activities, participation in Jewish holidays, the economical system promoted by the children, the food, their relations to animals and beliefs about animals, their fears, the punishments in the educational system, etc?..
It is not sold separately.
Title: Trois �nigmes : Le joujou de Tish�a b� av, Pessah et la Mimouna a Marrakech, Les �noces enfantines�.
(Three Enigma : The Little Toy of Tish�a be�Av, the Mimouna and Pessah in Marrakech, and the �Children�s Pretend Weddings� ceremonies).
Author: Nessim Sibony
Publisher : J.T. Productions, Los Angeles, August, 2003
142 pages including 8 pages of illustrations in colors. Color cover.
Language: French
More than 20 years of research enabled finally the author to link the custom of offering the toys on Tish�a be�Av to the birth of the Messiah Menahem.
The Mimouna celebration is explained in its practice including the origin of its name.
The custom of practicing pretend children�s wedding ceremonies is overviewed through all its possible significance.
Book not sold separately.
Both books are sold for 50 American dollars to be sent by check or money order to:
Nessim Sibony
J.T. Productions
P.O.B. 55501
Sherman Oaks, Ca. 91413
David Hirsch Middle East Bibliographer Research Library UCLA Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 tel: +1-310-825-2930 fax: +1-310-206-4974 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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