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Mimouna, Moroccan Jewish Music, and Montreal
A North African post-Passover festival and its songs.
Thanks to a proclamation from Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington, DC officially recognized yesterday as “Mimouna, a Festival of Good Neighbors.” Yet this traditional North African Jewish celebration, which in recent years has become increasingly mainstream in Israel and even in parts of the Diaspora, in fact took place last week, marking the conclusion of Passover. Mimouna’s origins and etymology are unclear. One common explanation states that it marks the anniversary of the death of Maimon ben Joseph, father of the great Rabbi Moses Maimonides; another that it is a leyl emunah, or “night of faith.”
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