History of the Jews in Morocco

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The history of the Jews in Morocco goes back to ancient times. Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community. Before the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, there were about 265,000 Jews^[1] in the country, with a maximum of between 250,000 and 350,000 at its peak in the 1950s ^[2], which gave Morocco the largest Jewish community in the Muslim world, but by 2017 only 2,000 or so remained.^[3] Jews in Morocco, originally speakers of Berber languages, Judeo-Moroccan Arabic or Judaeo-Spanish, were the first in the country to adopt the French language in the mid-19th century, and unlike among the Muslim population French remains the main (and, in many cases, the exclusive) language of members of the Jewish community there.^[4]