Three Books in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic – Casablanca, 1944–1953

Three Books in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic – Casablanca, 1944–1953
Three books in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic printed in Casablanca between 1944 and 1953.
1. History of the Rambah [Rabbi Meir Ba’al ha-Nes] and Rashbi [Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai] by Yehiel Bouskila. Casablanca: Moshe Amar, 1944. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
This book, which compiles the legends from the Talmud about the two tannaim, Rabbi Meir Ba’al ha-Nes and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai, was written by a Hebrew teacher in the Em Habanim and Magen David schools in Casablanca.
[2], 58 pp., [1] plate (an image of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai), 20 cm.
2. The Rabbinical Council of Morocco: the first annual convention of 1947. Casablanca: Y. Razon Printers, 1947.
The rabbis from all the cities in Morocco met in Rabat in 1947 in order to solve two main problems: "1. The purity of the laws in the statutes and customs that are not observed equally in the cities of Morocco. 2. Regulations and ordinances according to the situation, for the benefit of religion and Judaism, and for the benefit of the living." In subsequent years, the assembly convened in several other places. The conventions stopped in 1955, following political changes that took place after the departure of the French from Morocco and the establishment of the State of Israel.
20 pp., 23.5 cm.
3. The History of the Jews of Arab Morocco, Part 1, by Yitzhak D. Abu, translated by H.N. [Nahmani]. Casablanca: Y. Razon, 1953. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
The first part of the book deals with the history of Moroccan Jewry, with an emphasis on the rabbis of that country. The second part contains legends and proverbs about Palestine and translates them into Judeo-Arabic.
[2], 94 pp., 20 cm. The book has been rebound in a cardboard binding, without its original cover.
Condition varies.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.