The Levantini Podcast

Echoes from the Mellah

June 24, 2019 Foreigncy / Kamal Hachkar Episode 18
The Levantini Podcast
Echoes from the Mellah
Show Notes

In this episode of the podcast, I spoke with director Kamal Hachkar who made the film Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah.

The film documents the story of the Berber Jews from the city of Tinghir who left in the 1960s with the majority of them winding up in Israel. In the film, Kamal travels to Morocco to interview the people of Tinghir about their past lives coexisting with Jews and he also makes his way to Israel where he found many of the people who left and succeeds in capturing the memories of their past lives