Six-million Jews, almost all of them Ashkenazim, were murdered in the Holocaust. However, many non-Ashkenazim — both Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews — also suffered under the Nazi reign of terror and mass murder. Unfortunately, their stories have largely gone untold. This post is about Sephardi Jews during the Second Wold War; a future post will…
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of the Farhud, a vicious pogrom against the Jewish community in the Iraqi capital took place in 1941. The Nazi-influenced eruption of violence took the lives of hundreds of Jews in Baghdad and injured thousands of others. Quote: “During the two days of violence, rioters murdered between…
A frequently heard view from many historians — Muslin historians in particular — has been that Jews living under Islamic rule fared far better than their coreligionists living under Christian rule. While that may have been true to an extent, the bar for comparison set by Christians was abysmally low. During the millennium of Muslim…
Many people know about the Palestinian nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when some 600,000 Palestinians became refugees in surrounding Arab countries while the State of Israel was being established. Far less known is a Jewish nakba, during which an even greater number of mizrahi (eastern) Jews fled Arab countries, mainly under duress. The majority of those…
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