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Title Uprooted : how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight / Lyn Julius
Author Julius, Lyn,
Imprint London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2018

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Descript xxvii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Includes the author's signature
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-326) and index
Over a millennium before Islam -- The myth of peaceful coexistence -- The European colonial revolution -- The legacy of the Nazi era -- A virulent nationalism -- What came first: anti-semitism or anti-Zionism? -- Jewish refugees: Forgotten no more? -- 'My house is your house' -- Mizrahi wars of politics and culture -- Myths, lies and omissions -- The quest for justice for indigenous peoples
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 undertakes to answer all these questions and more in Uprooted, the culmination of ten years of work studying these issues. 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. Those with foreign passports and connections generally left for Europe, Australia, or the Americas. Some 650,000-including a minority of ideological Zionists-went to Israel. Before the Holocaust they constituted ten percent of the world's Jewish population, and now over 50 percent of Israel's Jews are refugees from Arab and Muslim countries, or their descendants. This same process is now repeating in Christian and other minority communities across the Middle East. This book also assesses how well these Jews have integrated into Israel and how their struggles have been politicized. It charts the growing clamour for recognition, redress and memorialization for these Jewish refugees, and looks at how their cause can contribute to peace and reconciliation between Israel and the Muslim world?--Back cover
Subject Jews -- Arab countries -- History
Antisemitism -- Arab countries -- History
Jews -- Persecutions -- Arab countries
Arab countries -- Ethnic relations -- History
Antisemitism.
Jews.
Jews -- Persecutions.
Judar -- historia
Antisemitism
Etniska relationer
Arab countries
Arabländerna 
History.
Classmark 305.892/40174927
Add Title How 3,000 years of Jewish civilization in the Arab world vanished overnight
ISBN/ISSN 9781910383643 (cloth)
1910383643
9781910383667 (paperback)
191038366X (paperback)
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