The Burton Holmes lectures; . FEZ 195 The next day we devote to the Jewish quarter, a distinctand separate city, called the Mellah. We approach itthrough the Hebrews burial ground, a place of whited sepul-chers, dwellings for the dead, and dingy huts, temporaryabodes for living men and women ; for there are two popula-tions in the Jewish cemetery, a iixed population of the wealthydead, a passing population of the living poor. You mustremember that in these Moorish cities the Jews are still com-pelled to dwell apart from true believers. Their houses areconfined in the restricted Mellah, where n
The Burton Holmes lectures; . FEZ 195 The next day we devote to the Jewish quarter, a distinctand separate city, called the Mellah. We approach itthrough the Hebrews burial ground, a place of whited sepul-chers, dwellings for the dead, and dingy huts, temporaryabodes for living men and women ; for there are two popula-tions in the Jewish cemetery, a iixed population of the wealthydead, a passing population of the living poor. You mustremember that in these Moorish cities the Jews are still com-pelled to dwell apart from true believers. Their houses areconfined in the restricted Mellah, where no provision wasoriginally made for an increase of population. Therefore thepoorer and the weaker Jews have been squeezed out of itsgates and have found refuge here in the city of the dead,where they have built crude huts and begun life anew. Thestreets or passageways are, however, far cleaner than thoseof the in-ner Mel-lah, andwe cannotbut agreethat resi-d e n c e in. )R NEIGHBORS OK THE WEALTHY DEAD 196 FEZ the freer atmosphere of this city of the dead is preferableto Hviiif^- on the other side of yonder walls, where every inchof space is occupied, where the atmosphere is heavy with badodors, anti where sunshine and fresh air are things almostunknown. A poor old Jew, a man with a large dependent family,serves as our guide. He tells of the misery of his people,begs me to repeat in my own land the story of their woe. It
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