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Cemetery at Taroudant, Morocco
The large cemetery of Taroudant hosts many graves--some buried and others still in excellent condition. A caretaker watches over the Taroudant Cemetery and guides visitors around the tombs and graves. Although few of the visible graves are inscribed in Hebrew, the most famous grave in this cemetery is for the Jewish saint David Ben Baruk Cohen Azog.
Description
The Jewish community in Taroudant (also Tarudant) may have existed as early as the eleventh century. Located at a crossroads, Taroudant's history and economy was influenced by the sugar industry and trans-Saharan trade. Taroudan'ts Jewish community numbered at about one thousand through the beginning of the 1950s, but eventually the majority of the population emigrated to other Moroccan cities, Paris, or Israel.
![Taroudant Cemetery, Section Near Entrance [2] (Taroudant, Morocco, 2010)](https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/jkGyDxlSQsmyMz10kulr/convert?w=100&h=100&fit=crop)
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