19:30 Sunday 2 February
In 1948, Baghdad was one of the most Jewish cities in the world. Today there are only three Jews in the whole of Iraq. Why has the post-1948 ethnic cleansing of almost a million Jews from the Arab and Muslim world, the largest population movement of non-Muslims from the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA), been ignored? Yet the Jewish refugees – who, with their descendants, make up over half the Jews of Israel – are the key to understanding conflict in the Middle East.
The Hamas massacre of 7 October makes the story of the ethnic cleansing of the MENA Jews more relevant than ever. Lyn Julius will present her book UPROOTED: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab World Vanished Overnight (Vallentine Mitchell).
The British-born daughter of Iraqi – Jewish refugees, Lyn Julius is a journalist, speaker, blogger and founder of Harif, the U.K. association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in JNS News, Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Jewish Chronicle, Fathom, The Article, The Guardian, etc.
Her book UPROOTED: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab World Vanished Overnight was published in 2018 (Vallentine Mitchell) and has been translated into Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic. A Hebrew translation is in progress.
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