Currently Reading: Uprooted

Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight, by Lyn Julius.

From the book jacket…

Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were the 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 Muslims countries, mostly refugees or their descendents.

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