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This chapter focuses on a guide to rural Jewish sites. I pay particular attention to how he uses his connection to Jews and Judaism to define himself as separate from his Arabizing community and a preserver of the Judeo-Amazigh past. The chapter opens with an extended biography of the guide’s father that serves as a personal narrative of the disintegration of Jews from Moroccan rural society. The latter half of the chapter describes how the guide grapples with a Morocco with decreasing examples of the inter-religious friendships that shaped his family.
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Driver, C.T.P. (2018). Drinking the Milk of Trust: A Performance of Authenticity. In: Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78786-2_6
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