Schooling in the Bled: Jewish Education and the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Southern Rural Morocco, 1830-1962 - Aomar Boum

Schooling in the Bled: Jewish Education and the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Southern Rural Morocco, 1830-1962

Aomar Boum, University of Arizon

In 1860, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) was founded in Paris. As an
international Jewish organization, the AIU stressed as its central mission: the
emancipation of Middle Eastern and North African Jewries through western
and modern education.1 Its European leadership tried to revive the Talmudic
belief that Jews are responsible for one another.