Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

Amazon.com Price: $37.95 (as of 26/03/2019 02:44 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

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 are we able to learn from the mass exodus of minorities from the Middle East? Lyn Julius undertakes to respond to a lot of these questions and more in Uprooted, the culmination of ten years of work studying these issues. Jews lived regularly in the Middle East and North Africa for just about 3,000 years. Yet, in just 50 years, their indigenous communities outdoor Palestine almost totally disappeared as more than 99 percent of the Jewish population fled. Those with foreign passports and connections in most cases 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. *** “Lyn Julius provides a riveting account of a fascinating, but disgracefully overlooked subject. Anyone who in point of fact wants to consider the Middle East, Israel and world history, must read it.” –Tom Gross, former Middle East correspondent, Sunday Telegraph; contributor to The Guardian and Wall Street Journal[Subject: Middle East Studies, Jewish Studies, History, Sociology, Politics]

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Middle East » Israel and Palestine » Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

Recent Products