For centuries, in the cities and the countryside, Jewish artistry

flourished in Morocco: metals (precious and otherwise), manuscripts,

various fabrics, leather, wood, etc. It often resulted in exceptional

pieces that express the uniqueness and creativity of the

mostly anonymous artisans.

Ethnologist André Goldenberg, a native of Morocco, has devoted

much of his life and his knowledge to collecting the pieces in this

work, these ritual and secular objects, always of absolute authenticity

and extremely high artistic quality.

They reveal the many facets of the magnificent and often overlooked

Moroccan Jewish art that his patient research has now

rescued from oblivion. This richly illustrated book, a veritable

"imaginary museum," lets us see and understand hundreds of

masterpieces from prestigious public and private collections in

Morocco and elsewhere.