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Piecing together the fragments of our Arab-Jewish identity
Siblings Yoni and Sivan Battat discuss how collaborating on the former's music album became a means of reconnecting with their Iraqi family and heritage, and of disentangling Mizrahiness from Israeliness.
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Yoni Battat
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Sivan Battat
November 17, 2022
Abbas to family of Iraqi-Jewish author: ‘You are our bridge to peace’
An Iraqi-Jewish family visits Ramallah for the first time — at the personal invitation of the Palestinian president.
By
Naomi Niddam
November 22, 2019
Bidding farewell to ‘the last Arab Jew’
Born in Baghdad, Prof. Sasson Somekh was a prominent expert on Arabic literature, and a notable author and activist. He passed away this week. By Raanan Shemesh Forshner Prof. Sasson Somekh, one of Israel’s most prominent experts on Arabic literature and a lifelong proponent of peace, passed away this week in Tel Aviv. A winner of…
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+972 Magazine
August 23, 2019
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Egyptian TV series shines light on the untold story of Arab Jews
A controversial new television show gives us a glimpse into Jewish-Muslim relations before Israel’s establishment, as well as a better understanding of those Jews who left Arab countries only to become Israel’s Mizrahim. By Nadia Naser-Najjab A recent controversy over a new Egyptian television series has served to highlight one of the central tensions at the…
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July 4, 2015
In 2015, memory of Nakba has inched closer to Israeli mainstream
Two Nakba-themed events were organized by groups you’d least expect, suggesting that the legacy of the Palestinian catastrophe has ventured beyond Palestinian and leftist circles. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio and Dr. Eléonore Merza Bronstein Until a few years ago, inside Israel Nakba Day was marked primarily on Independence Day. It was a family and community…
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May 15, 2015
What Egypt’s multicultural past teaches us about Israel’s present
Jacqueline Kahanoff’s novel, ‘Jacob’s Ladder,’ strips ‘multiculturalism’ of its cold, academic veneer, displaying instead the reality of a Jewish, multicultural lifestyle. But the novel also directs a powerful question toward Israeli society: can the Arabs that live among us today ever live in Israel the same way Jews lived in Egypt? By Ktsiaa Alon (translated from…
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Haokets
December 29, 2014
Re-learning history: A tribute to North Africa’s Jewish artists
Though often forgotten in Israel today, some of North Africa’s biggest cultural assets were in fact Jewish. Meet the stars who shaped Maghrebi music, from the classical to the contemporary. By Ophir Toubul ‘There arose the idea of taking people who have nothing in common. The one lot comes from the highest culture there is…
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Cafe Gibraltar
October 9, 2014
Farhud, 1941: Iraqi Jews remember a massacre
On the holiday of Shavuot in 1941, Iraq’s Jews experienced a pogrom that claimed over 180 lives and ended in mass looting. But there’s another story from the Farhud that often goes undiscussed: the bravery of Muslims during the crisis. “The Farhud” / Foreword By Orit Bashkin (translated by Asaf Shalev) Silently but not without some…
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Cafe Gibraltar
June 10, 2014
Zionism and the Shah: On the Iranian elite’s evolving perceptions of Israel
It is a generally assumed that the Shah’s downfall led to the severing of ties between Israel and Iran, which up until that point resembled a love story. However, both Iran’s intellectual elite and the rest of the nation drastically changed their views of the Jewish State after 1967. By Lior Sternfeld The relationship between…
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Haokets
May 18, 2013
Spineless bookkeeping: The use of Mizrahi Jews as pawns against Palestinian refugees
Calls to define Jews from Arab countries as refugees were silenced in the past by Israeli governments. The change of policy has to do with the relatively new recognition that Israel will not be able to escape its responsibility for the Nakba. But leaders of the new campaign should first learn the history of their…
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Haokets
September 25, 2012
Beyond statehood: Resolving the Nakba, avoiding segregation
The discourse of segregation that envisions two units, one Arab-free and one Jewish-free, has worrisome implications for democracy and the relations between the two peoples. The Palestinian right of return must be part of a larger vision for the region, in which the regimes belong to all their citizens. By Muhammad Jabali Anybody claiming that…
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December 20, 2011
Israeli propaganda film: “Dark” Oriental Jews and “light” of civilization
A newly discovered Israeli propaganda film from the 1950’s reveals the depths of racism applied to Oriental Jewish children who came to Israel – and how it was justified by militarism and the need for disciplined soldiers Last weekend, Lihi Yona published here a post describing and explaining her self-identification as an Arab Jew. Although…
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Dimi Reider
September 20, 2011
I am an Arab Jew
A Lebanese band’s concert in Jordan offered this Arab Jew from Haifa a new take on her identity and one of the of the key premises of the Arab-Jewish conflict. By Lihi Yona Last Tuesday, I returned from Amman. I went to see a concert given by the Lebanese band Mashrou3 Leila in the only…
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+972 Magazine
September 17, 2011
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