The Hebrew University

Spielberg Film Archives

 Edge of the West  -  Jews of Morocco 
 
Film about the Jews in Morocco. A documentary record of Jewish life in Morocco before the break-up of the Jewish community there
   
View Film  - One hour 15 seconds
   
Contents   Reel one
Credits   Zafrir, Arnan director
  Blancherie, Jacques-Andre camera
  Ben Yehoshua, Avraham narrator
  Friedman, Herbert narrator (d00307 (3))
  Shik, Danny montage
  Milstein, David montage
  Ben Moshe, Raphael music
  Zafrir, Arnan producer
   
  United Jewish Appeal sponsor (d00307 (3))
  World Zionist Organization sponsor

 
  0 Introduction
  33 Moroccan dancing in streets
  37 King of Morocco in motorcade
  44 Water drawn from well
  48 Street and country scenes
  69 Title
  73 GV’s Marrakesh and Tangier
  105 Casablanca street scenes
  126 Historical buildings
  153 Mosque in Fez GV city
  194 Scenes of Medina and Marrakesh
  229 Crowded market place
  240 GV’s coastal ports
  261 Street scenes
  292 CU’s graves in cemetery
  307 Jews in Mellah
  316 CU’s Jewish streets names
  322 Jewish life in Mellah
  378 Market scenes in Mellah
  422 CU’s jewelry shop windows
  429 Jewelry workshop
  441 Jewish names on professional nameplates
  448 Old cobbler at work
  466 Lamp being made
  476 Copper plate being hammered out
  484 Woodwork
  494 Carpet weaving and finishing
  530 Carpet shop
  538 Man embroidering gold thread on Tora covers
  562 Chabad missionaries preparing goatskin parchment
  576 Tefillin workshop
  620 ends
  Reel Two
  0 Old man giving religious instruction to young children
  48 Woman queuing for food parcels CU sacks of American aid
  59 CU American Joint Distribution Committee sacks
  60 Butter wrapped for distribution
  66 Supplies distributed
  100 Joint Distribution Committee kindergarten
  169 Sabbath candles lit in kindergarten
  192 Bread and pots of food put in central ovens
  204 Moroccan woman lighting candles at Sabbath table and greeting husband and daughter
  230 Kiddush at home
  257 Street scenes
  271 Synagogue
  281 INT synagogue on Rosh Hashana
  339 Empty streets
  346 Bride being dressed for henna ceremony
  405 Bride led to sit beside prospective bridegroom-hands of both daubed with henna
  452 Children in Purim procession and play
  483 Boys studying Book of Esther
  GV’s INT synagogue
  504 Purim banquet prepared
  524 Reading of Megilat Esther
  550 Jews praying at graves and tombs
  607 GV’s Scenes in fortified villages
  635 Water being drawn and camels at well
  654 Agricultural work in village
  665 Wall being built out of earth
  687 Villagers on their way to market day
  836 END of reel two
  Reel three
  0 CU buildings
  10 GV town
  14 CU’s courtyard and village street scenes in Southern Morocco
  CU’s Jewish inhabitants
  57 Women and girls pounding food
  69 Men at work tailoring
  83 Leather craftsman at work
  90 Pottery vessels being made and fired
  123 Oven prepared and dough kneaded
  155 Food prepared and eaten (Erev Tisha B’Av)
  196 Service in synagogue
  217 GV countryside and CU’s gravestones
  239 Seashore-people arriving at night on beach and waiting
  278 GV port
  286 Two men on beach
  294 Rowing-boats arriving on beach
  323 People filing into boats
  361 Ship at sea
  368 Scenes at Atlas mountain village
  393 Girl with water pitcher
  400 Woman pumping bellows
  404 Mother with child milking cows
  412 CU’s villagers
  427 Shoemakers making sandals and boots
  439 Pita and tea being served for men after work
  428 Old men studying
  494 Villagers with Jewish Agency officials, preparing to leave village
  533 Identity photos being taken
  545 Village elder on hillside
  563 Jewish Agency official arriving for final leaving preparations
  572 Tora Scroll rolled up
  578 Mezuzot removed from synagogue
  587 Villagers coming out with belongings and registering with official
  649 Track down mountain with donkeys
  698 Loading and getting into bus
  613 CU’s people inside bus
  718 Bus on road
  745 Deserted village
  745 LV bus on road
  759 credits
  770 ends