Rabat, Aug. 6 -- "Sometimes I think my entire life was preparation for Morocco. At home we always knew we were Moroccan," begins a long, homecoming-themed article by Khen Elmaleh, a Moroccan Jew who says she has always wanted to bond with a part of her identity she felt she had lost.

Elmaleh recently travelled to Morocco to have a firsthand feeling and experience of the memories and stories she grew up with as the child of Moroccan Jews who migrated to Israel after World War II.

As a Jewish Moroccan child in Israel, she recounts, Moroccanness, even as it was part and parcel of how children like her felt, how they wanted to project themselves in the larger Israeli society, the Moroccan, or Arab, part of their identity "gradually faded" a...