{"id":3917,"date":"2020-06-10T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigboyztoyz69.com\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2020-06-10T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:34:26","slug":"prostitution-in-jewish-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigboyztoyz69.com\/en\/prostitution-in-jewish-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostitution in Jewish communities"},"content":{"rendered":"
In eastern Jewish communities, prostitution was most prevalent in Morocco, especially during the occupation of the country by foreign armies during World War II. The growth of prostitution was also facilitated by the transition from traditional life in rural areas to urban and the same reasons that caused it everywhere: poverty, ignorance, mass migration. After the Second World War, there were 2.5 thousand Jewish prostitutes in Casablanca, that is, 4% of the entire Jewish population of the city. The Jewish communities of Morocco were tolerant of prostitution, as they feared that brutal measures of struggle would induce prostitutes to convert to Islam.<\/p>\n
The root cause of the spread of prostitution among Jews after emancipation was the anomaly of Jewish life in Galut – the destruction of traditional foundations was not accompanied by the normalization of the social status of the Jewish masses, but it led to declassification, impoverishment, mass migrations, and the loss of moral guidelines. After World War II, there were cases of prostitution among European Jews among displaced persons, refugees, and surviving prisoners of concentration camps.<\/p>\n
Before World War II, there was almost no prostitution among Jews in Eretz-Israel, since the Jewish population consisted mainly of members of religious communities who maintained their traditional way of life, and new Olim, immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe, where they belonged to the middle and the upper classes of society; among them, the leading role was played by idealists, adherents of various currents of the Zionist movement.<\/p>\n