The 7 October Hamas massacre was the most recent in a long line of pogroms to afflict Middle Eastern and North African Jews in modern times. This month we commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the Farhud massacre of June 1941, which claimed the lives of at least 180 Jews in Iraq.
Michelle Huberman, creative director of Harif, will share a visual presentation detailing some of the massacres and murderous riots suffered by MENA Jews over the last 100 years.
IMPORTANT: Please note that no registration is required but for security reasons, only participants identified by name (ie not 'Ipad' or "Wonderwoman') will be admitted. The event will be live-streamed to the Harif Facebook page and recorded.
Jews from Arab lands are the missing piece of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse by American Syrian Jew Lisa Sayegh May 7, 2024
"...Over the past years, I have often been frustrated when I find people do not understand the trauma of the 700,000 Jews from all over the Middle East who were violently expelled from their countries in 1948 and how it resonates today. Pro-Palestinian activists who call out Israel as a “European settler colonial project” omit a critical part of the story that calls into question their claim. They ignore the Mizrahi majority in Israel who are descendants of Jews expelled from Arab lands when Israel was declared a state..."
@shekinahcancook
My Persian college roommate said that his family could trace their roots ~1,900 years back in Iran, until relatively contemporary expulsion. I couldn't believe it, but he showed me a remarkably detailed family tree (yes, with omissions). Heard him comparing notes with another Iranian Jew during Minyan recently — similar story!
@RunRichRun@shekinahcancook My Tibetan Buddhist friend told me he can trace his family tree back ~5,000 years! If you ever get a chance in NYC, I recommend a visit to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Middle Eastern wing. Really blew my mind - a magnificent collection.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, as well as Professor of History and the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She is the award-winning author or editor of ten books, including, most recently, Wartime North Africa: a Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, co-authored with Aomar Boum). She lives and surfs in Santa Monica, CA.
MPORTANT: Please note that no registration is required but for security reasons, in the Zoom room only participants identified by name (ie not 'Ipad' or "Wonderwoman') will be admitted. The event will also be livestreamed to the Harif Facebook page.
Google #Scholar suggested "changes" to my presentations. It suggested to change one from all-caps to reasonable-caps but with a misspelling. I pressed "edit" because I wanted to edit, but apparently it meant "you go edit whatever you want, Google" with no opportunity to compromise. I did not manage to click the "Undo" button in the few seconds it was there.
His keynote will focus on "Intelligent Interfaces", where he explores new forms of #interaction enabled by #sensing technologies such as sound, light, electric fields, radio waves and #BioSignals.
Happy Chag Habanot (AKA Rosh Chodesh L’banot)! Rosh Chodesh and Chanukah are both holidays related specifically to women, on which it is customary for women to refrain from certain types of work in celebration. In some North African Jewish traditions, there are additional celebrations when the two coincide, commemorating the many women heroes through Jewish history.
@jeffalyanak yeah as you move around the camera the translation changes a bit since the form of the words shift. there is actually a whole bunch of armenian fedi users they have a bunch of instances.
Translated from French, Une enfance juive en Méditerranée musulmane (2012) is a collection of stories curated by Leïla SEBBAR. Chochana Boukhobza, Roger Dadoun, Anny Dayan-Rosenman, Tobie Nathan, Rosie Pinhas-Delpuech....
@histodons @palestine @israel Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 was published in Arabic in 2016 by the Institute for Palestine Studies. An English translation of the book was published in collaboration with New Directions in Palestinian Studies at the University of...
"The Maknuune Lexicon" is a Palestinian Arabic lexicon which is updated regularly and available to download as PDF, and raw TSV. Also, it is built with #LaTeX (could easily tell by the underlined hyperrf toc links 🤓 It is part of an encyclopedic project Palestinian Arabic dialect by NYU University in Abu Dhabi.
@histodons #histodons #palestine Looking forward to going through Anne Irfan's "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia University Press,...
Did you know that the dunce cap was once a sign of intellect?
Duns Scotia was a 13th c. #scholar. He was known for his (very) subtle distinctions on topics such as the immaculate conception of Mary & the individuation of things.
After #Renaissance#humanism took hold (& its idea to do away with #medieval complexities in #theology), the once celebrated followers of Scotism (“Dunses”), were now seen as pedantic & unintellectual.
20 Dec 1601: James Ussher #scholar ordained deacon & priest by his uncle archbishop Henry Ussher #otd (Bodl)
James Ussher is now best known for setting date of creation as 23 Oct 4004 BC, which is a pity because it eclipses his immense erudition & many vital publications
@histodons @israel #israel #palestine #colonialism #apartheid "Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to...
From Harif - Association of UK Jews from MENA - a London event:
*Why is the ethnic cleansing of MENA Jews more relevant than ever? Monday 20 May, 7:30 pm. Appeal for Yad Sarah. Lyn Julius will present her book UPROOTED. Donors get a free signed copy. Maida Vale Venue.
For complimentary tickets please email Michael Marks at michael@yadsarah.org.uk.
@histodons #histodons Was curious about this title, which I'm browsing through at the moment. It seems to be not using some of the most obvious sources I'm aware of in respect to the Jews of North Africa in general, but also in the context of the Holocaust....
