KENNETH KOCH
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K:
Thank you , Pi erre Sadi-Rab. You h ave g iven me some very interes t–
ing things to think about.
Intervi ew with Solomon EI
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K:
You were go in g to tell me a bout the J ew ish community
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Morocco.
S: I can do th at. I can speak a little more know ledgea bl y a bout the
Jew ish communit y in Marrakesh.
K:
Would you do th at?
S: Yes. There were, up till fo ur yea rs ago, a bo ut thirty thousand J ews
in Marrakesh. As of now th ere a re abollt four tho usand.
K:
Where have they a ll gon e?
S: To Israel. The Jewish people here h ave been very a fraid since the
change in government.
(K:
Here fo ll owed a lon g section abou t J ew ish political probl ems in
Morocco.)
K:
What abo ut you and your wife? H ave you been tempted
to
leave?
S: Oh yes, tempted. But we h ave no t left. I do no t think we a re going to
leave.
K:
Why no t, if you are a fra id ?
S: Did I say we were a fra id ? Yes, we a re a fra id. But Ma rrakesh is our
home. Mo rocco is our country. We don't want to go a n ypl ace else.
Intervi ew with Charles N. , an American Res ident o f Marrakesh-
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K:
How long h ave you lived here?
C:
Ten yea rs.
K:
Wh at do you think a bo ut it?
C:
It's the onl y pl ace in the world now to be. Where else can you be?
Spain is fini sh ed. Spain u sed to be possible, but Spain is fini sh ed.
Mallorca used
to
be beautiful, now it 's compl etely fini sh ed. You
can ' t li ve in Spain. May be in South America, sometime in the future,
I don 't kn ow. Ri ght now thi s is th e onl y pl ace.
K:
The only place to live?
C:
The only place it 's even possible. Yo u can ' t live in Spain now, in
