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Article: Morocco Is On a Mission to Attract Jews as Tourists.
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- September 23, 1999
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Sep. 22 -- FEZ, Morocco -- There are more dead Jews than alive in this medieval imperial city. In the Cimetiere Israelite, some 12,000 souls are buried in immaculately white mausoleums and domed shrines splayed across a hillside lush with pear trees and kumquats.
Even though the dead outnumber the living, they continue to haunt the city's past and play a startling role in its future.
In Fez, as in several Moroccan cities, intricately tiled synagogues and ancient cemeteries are being restored. There is a Jewish museum here, and one about to open in Casablanca, all part of a campaign to encourage Jewish tourism ...