(25F6) Moroccan Jewish Roots Series – Part 1: 19th Century Eretz Israel Censuses

November 16th, 2025, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/R7_cUW07IU0Y.

You can contact Raquel Levy-Toledano by emailing to genealogyjm@gmail.com.  The link to her article recently published on Montefiore censuses (open source) is at https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/3/72.  The link to Montefiore Endowment website is at https://www.montefioreendowment.org.uk/ and the link to the search section of the website is https://www.montefioreendowment.org.uk/census-search/.

This program is in partnership with Sephardic Heritage International (SHINDC.org) and co-hosted with Magen David Sephardic Congregation, Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW), the National Museum of American Jewish Military History (NMAJMH), and Stand With Us.

Mizrahi Heritage.  Jewish Presence in the Land of Israel in the 19th Century.  Insights from Montefiore Censuses

New evaluation and analysis of the five censuses undertaken at the initiative of philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore among the Jewish population of the Land of Israel between 1839 and 1875 unveils the patterns of Jewish immigration during the surveyed period and its variations by size and by countries of origin, including Morocco and Ashkenazi lands.  These data provide important evidence concerning the overall Jewish presence in the Land of Israel.

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Raquel Levy-Toledano was born in Morocco and currently resides in France where she received her MD in gynecology and PhD in molecular endocrinology, followed by postdoctoral training at the NIH in Washington where she was an active member of the local Sephardic community. She is a board member of International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) and of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive where she manages the Genetic Genealogy Group, a member of the General Assembly of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy in Israel, president of  Nos Ancêstres Juifs Marocains et Algériens (NAJMA) Genealogical Society, an expert curator of Geni’s Moroccan and Algerian Jewish family tree, co-administrator of the Avotaynu DNA project section involving North African Jews, and founder of the Généalogie des Juifs Marocains Facebook Group, which has 13,000 members. She has published several articles in Généalo-J and other journals and has presented at numerous conferences.