Uprooted : how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight / Lyn Julius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Julius, Lyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Arab countries.

Jews.

Jewish refugees.

Arab countries.

Jewish refugees--Arab countries.

Jewish-Arab relations--History.

Jewish-Arab relations.

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Vallentine Mitchell, 2018.

Summary:

Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave countries where they had been settled for thousands of years? What lessons can we learn from the mass exodus of minorities from the Middle East? Lyn Julius answers all these questions and more in Uprooted. Jews lived continuously in the Middle East and North Africa for almost 3,000 years. Yet, in just 50 years, their indigenous communities outside Palestine almost totally disappeared as more than 99 percent of the Jewish population fled. The same process is repeating with Christian and other minority communities across the Middle East. Before the Holocaust Jews in Arab countries constituted 10 percent of the world's Jewish population, and now over 50 percent of Israel's Jews are from Arab and Muslim countries, mostly refugees or their descendants. The book also assesses how well these Jews have integrated into Israel and how their struggles have been politicised. It charts the growing clamour for recognition, redress and memorialisation. How can their cause contribute to peace and reconciliation between Israel and the Muslim world? The British-born daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Lyn Julius graduated in International Relations from the University of Sussex. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Jewish News, Ha'aretz, Standpoint and Huffington Post, among other media. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Over a Millennium before Islam 1

2 The Myth of Peaceful Coexistence 24

3 The European Colonial Revolution 48

4 The Legacy of the Nazi Era 79

5 A Virulent Nationalism 100

6 What Came First: Anti-Semitism or Anti-Zionism? 119

7 Jewish Refugees: Forgotten No More? 148

8 'My House is your House' 169

9 Mizrahi Wars of Politics and Culture 196

10 Myths, Lies and Omissions 223

11 The Quest for Justice for Indigenous Peoples 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-326) and index.

ISBN:

9781910383643

1910383643

OCLC:

1016948051