Before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, there were about 250,000 to 350,000 Jews in the country, which made Morocco the largest Jewish community in the Muslim world, but fewer than 2,500 remain today.

Prior to his role in preserving Moroccan Jewish culture, he was known as an activist for national independence and human rights from the time of the French protectorate in Morocco and the reign of King Hassan II.

[1] In addition to the king and Moroccan government officials, the opening was attended by the museum's president, Jacques Toledano and Samuel L. Kaplan, US ambassador to Morocco.

[3] Further, visitors can find artifacts of Moroccan Jewish life, including the bimah (c. 1944) from the Beni-Issakhar Synagogue in Casablanca, Torah scrolls, mezuzahs and a Hanukkah menorah.

This document was written by Asher Ḥassin, a Moroccan Jew and Hebrew teacher, who lived through the horrors of the Vichy regime and wrote this scroll in the style of the biblical Book of Esther.