Returning to Routes: The Emergence of a Moroccan Jewish Diaspora in the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the formation of a global Moroccan Jewish diaspora in the latter half of the 20th century, arguing that "Moroccanness," forged through multi-directional migration and the resulting shared history, memory, and culture, has served as a unifying force. The study demonstrates how this sense of shared origin, coupled with ongoing transnational connections, influenced the development of diverse communities, identities, and collective action across various hubs of Moroccan Jewish life. The thesis focuses on under-researched sites of Moroccan Jewish life and activities. It explores the experiences of Moroccan Jews in Israel's peripheral development towns, where a Zionist counternarrative emerged, positioning them as Israeli pioneers. It delves into the complexities faced by educators within the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Morocco, navigating colonial and post-colonial contexts and striving for recognition as Moroccan state-builders. Additionally, it examines the ethnicization of Moroccan Jews as francophone Sephardim in Montreal and their engagement in transnational solidarity programs with their Israeli counterparts. By analyzing factors driving emigration from Morocco, including decolonization, along Canadian, French, Israeli, and Moroccan policies, and Moroccan Jews’ subsequent experiences in the countries where they settled, this work provides a novel understanding of diasporic identity formation. Ultimately, the thesis argues that Moroccan Jewish history transcends geographical boundaries and specific historical periods, with "Moroccanness" functioning as a unifying language that connects a global diaspora across time and space
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".