Toshavim
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Toshavim (
During the middle ages migration between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa was common due to local political and economic conditions and depending on the ruling kingdom and treatment of Jews.[1] Jews from Spain often fled to Morocco as early as the seventh century and during the twelfth century, Jews in both countries fled, crossing back and forth between the two lands.[1]
Toshavim had their own dialects.
The new arrivals did not always deal well with the local Jews. For example, in Algiers they called the local Jews derisively "turban-wearers" and vice versa, the Spanish Jews were called "beret-wearers".[2][3]
Despite the fact that Toshavim were apparently overwhelmed and absorbed by Sephardic immigrants, the differences in many areas of communal lives of Toshavim and Megorashim persisted for a very long time: separate
See also
- Berber Jews
- Musta'arabi Jews
- Terefah controversy , a severe halakhic controversy about a specific type of terefah, among the Fez Jewry between Toshavim and Megorashim
- Al Fassiyine Synagogue
References
- ^ a b c "Toshavim", Brill online
- ^ Richard Ayoun, "A l’arrivée des Juifs espagnols en Algérie : mutation de la communauté"
- JSTOR 23529108
- JSTOR 991758.