{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.moroccan-jews","code":"thing-q16152214","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q16152214/","name":"Moroccan Jews","alternateNames":["Moroccan henna","azmomeg"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.KNW"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Moroccan Jews are Jews with familial or communal origins in Morocco, including communities in Morocco and their diaspora, whose diverse traditions reflect longstanding North African Jewish life and influences from Jews arriving from the Iberian Peninsula.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise Moroccan Jewish communities and heritage, assess claims about their continuity and condition, and support research, description and preservation without imposing identity on individuals.","scope":{"in":["Collective Moroccan Jewish identification, including distinctions between ancestry, self-identification, religious affiliation and citizenship.","Local communities associated with Moroccan towns, cities and regions, with explicit historical periods.","Religious, linguistic and cultural traditions attributed to particular Moroccan Jewish communities.","Migration, diaspora formation and continuing relationships with Morocco.","Community institutions, heritage transmission and the provenance of representations of Moroccan Jews."],"out":["Individual biographies, genealogical profiles and determinations of a person's religious status.","Judaism and Moroccan society in their entirety.","Sephardi and Mizrahi populations beyond their documented relationships to Moroccan Jews.","Full descriptions of individual synagogues, cemeteries, manuscripts, recordings and other heritage objects.","Citizenship law, migration policy and diplomatic relations except where needed to contextualise community experience."],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["The referent must be a Jewish population or community with an evidenced relationship to Morocco, rather than Moroccan society generally.","Moroccan nationality alone does not establish Moroccan Jewish identification, and residence outside Morocco does not exclude it.","Sephardi or Mizrahi classification alone is insufficient: a specifically Moroccan connection must be recorded separately.","An account of Moroccan Jews represents this population but is not itself the population; works and media require linked models.","A local community, historical population and contemporary diaspora association must remain distinguishable even when they share a Moroccan place-name."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"identity-and-population-boundaries","name":"Identity and population boundaries","description":"Establishes what Moroccan Jewish identification means in a particular account and which population that account 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affiliation?","id":"place-based-community-boundaries-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"periods-and-changing-conditions","name":"Periods and changing conditions","description":"Locates accounts of communal life within changes in governance, social relations and institutional organisation.","findings":[{"id":"dated-community-conditions","name":"Dated community conditions","description":"Claims about status, security, occupation or relations with other Moroccan populations require a specified period, locality and evidential basis.","questions":[{"text":"Which locally evidenced changes justify the historical periods used in this account?","id":"dated-community-conditions-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Where does evidence about one Moroccan Jewish locality cease to support a claim about Moroccan Jews collectively?","id":"dated-community-conditions-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"religious-linguistic-and-cultural-transmission","name":"Religious, linguistic and cultural 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communities?","id":"locally-attributed-religious-practice-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Whose guidance is appropriate before documenting, reproducing or adapting this practice?","id":"locally-attributed-religious-practice-q03","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"languages-and-expressive-repertoires","name":"Languages and expressive repertoires","description":"Records language varieties, oral histories, music and other expressive traditions through specific contexts of use.","findings":[{"id":"repertoire-use-and-transmission","name":"Repertoire use and transmission","description":"Language and expressive heritage records distinguish historical attestation, current use, intergenerational teaching and revival.","questions":[{"text":"Which language or variety names do speakers and sources use, and in which Moroccan or diaspora settings are they documented?","id":"repertoire-use-and-transmission-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What evidence distinguishes current use and intergenerational transmission from archival survival or recent revival?","id":"repertoire-use-and-transmission-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"migration-and-diaspora-continuity","name":"Migration and diaspora continuity","description":"Connects departures, destinations and later community formation through dated, sourced relationships.","layers":[{"id":"migration-trajectories","name":"Migration trajectories","description":"Separates migration events and explanations by cohort, origin, destination and source.","findings":[{"id":"evidenced-migration-cohorts","name":"Evidenced migration cohorts","description":"Migration accounts preserve differences in timing and circumstances rather than assigning a single motive to Moroccan Jewish migration.","questions":[{"text":"Which origins, destinations, dates and population definitions delimit the migration cohort?","id":"evidenced-migration-cohorts-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which sources support the stated reasons for departure, and whose experiences do those explanations cover?","id":"evidenced-migration-cohorts-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"diaspora-affiliation-and-morocco-links","name":"Diaspora affiliation and Morocco links","description":"Describes how communities outside Morocco articulate origin and maintain, reinterpret or discontinue connections.","findings":[{"id":"claimed-and-practised-continuity","name":"Claimed and practised continuity","description":"Diaspora continuity is assessed through documented identification, institutions and activities, with ancestry recorded as a distinct relationship.","questions":[{"text":"How does this diaspora community describe its relationship to Morocco and to particular Moroccan Jewish localities?","id":"claimed-and-practised-continuity-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which current organisations, visits, teaching activities or other documented relationships substantiate that connection?","id":"claimed-and-practised-continuity-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"institutions-heritage-and-representation","name":"Institutions, heritage and representation","description":"Supports assessment of communal institutions, linked heritage resources and the authority behind public descriptions.","layers":[{"id":"institutional-and-heritage-stewardship","name":"Institutional and heritage stewardship","description":"Links communal organisations to the places, collections and practices they use or maintain.","findings":[{"id":"mandate-condition-and-access","name":"Mandate, condition and access","description":"Institutional activity, heritage condition, custodianship and access permission are separate claims requiring current evidence.","questions":[{"text":"Which body currently uses or maintains the synagogue, cemetery, collection or community institution, and what establishes its mandate?","id":"mandate-condition-and-access-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What 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