Singerman Entry
Singerman ID#supp2428
Thomson, Joseph. Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco: A Narrative of Exploration. New York: Longmans, Green, 1889. xviii, 488 p., [8] p. of adv.
Notes
Jews are encountered in Marrakesh and Mogador (today Essaouira), also in the Atlas Mountains. Thomson offers an account of conditions in the Jewish mellah, or Jewish quarter, Jewish moneylending practices, and Jewish-Moslem relations in chap. 27, "The Jews."