ORIENTAL JEWSORIENTAL JEWS

By: Jeremy DeryBy: Jeremy Dery 01/22/2012 01/22/2012

INFOINFO

• SEPHARDIM• MIZRAHIT• DHIMMI• MAGHREB• Before 1948 an

estimated 900,000 Jews lived in Arab countries. 

• YALLA –LETS START

BRIEF HISTORYBRIEF HISTORY

• FIRST/SECOND TEMPLE- KING SOLOMON/KING HEROD- 957 BCE/ 19 BCE

• BEFORE/ DURING TIME OF JESUS• TRADERS• SLAVES• BABYLONIA + ROMANS- EXILES• PERSIA- ANCIENT JEWISH COMMUNITY• BERBERS• BEFORE ISLAM/ CHRISTIANITY- SUMERIAN/

ZOROASTRIAN

DURING 2DURING 2NDND EXILE EXILE

• ROMANS DESTROY ANCIENT ISRAEL• JEWS SCATTER ALL OVER THE WORLD• JEWS OF MEDINA- PROPHET MOHAMMAD/

ISLAM-570- 632• UMMA AND SHARIAH- DHIMMI• ISLAM SPREADS TO NORTH AFRICA AND

MIDDLE EAST

SPAIN, OTTOMAN, EUROPESPAIN, OTTOMAN, EUROPE

• SPANISH INQUISITION• RAMBAM-MAIMONIDES• OTTOMAN- TURKS• FRENCH/ BRITISH COLONIAL EMPIRE• NORTH AFRICA-FRENCH- MIDDLE EAST

MOSTLY BRITISH EXCEPT SYRIA AND LEBANON

NAZI, ISRAEL, PAN ARABISMNAZI, ISRAEL, PAN ARABISM

• VICHY AND NAZIS- TUNISIA• MOROCCAN KING- NO JEWS ONLY

MOROCCANS• MAY 14, 1948-ISRAEL CREATED• NASSER + PAN ARABISM

EXODUS AND FORGOTTEN EXODUS AND FORGOTTEN REFUGEESREFUGEES

• 1948-1970 -ARAB PERSECUTION• MABAROT- TRANSIT CAMPS- SALAH SHABATI• RACISM- ASHKENAZ/ORIENTAL• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jlWg49z8Xc• OPERATION MAGIC CARPET, YACHIN, NEHEMIAH• PROBLEM- ARAB GOVT’S MUST RECOGNIZE AND RECOMPENSATE

JEWS• http://www.justiceforjews.com/pop_chart.pdf- CHART

RecentlyRecently• The official position of the Israeli government is that Jews from Arab countries are

considered refugees, and it considers their rights to property left in countries of origin as valid and existent.[125] http://www.justice.gov.il/MOJEng/Rights+of+Jews+from+Arab+Lands/

• In 2008, the Orthodox Sephardi party, Shas, announced its intention to seek compensation for Jewish refugees from Arab states.[126] In 2009, Israeli lawmakers introduced a bill into the Knesset to make compensation for Jewish refugees an integral part of any future peace negotiations by requiring compensation on behalf of current Jewish Israeli citizens, who were expelled from Arab countries after Israel was established in 1948 and leaving behind a significant amount of valuable property. In February 2010, the bill passed its first reading. The bill was sponsored by MK Nissim Ze'ev (Shas) and follows a resolution passed in the United States House of Representatives in 2008, calling for refugee recognition to be extended to Jews and Christians similar to that extended to Palestinians in the course of Middle East peace talks.[127]

Holocaust restitution expert Sidney Zabludoff has published a calculation that the losses sustained by the Jews who fled Arab countries since 1947 amounts to $6 billion, in contrast to the losses of the Palestinian Arab refugees which he estimates at $3.9 billion (both sums in 2007 dollars).[131]

Jewish refugee advocacyJewish refugee advocacy• Justice for Jews from Arab Countries seeks to secure rights and redress for

Jews from Arab countries who suffered as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict.

• JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) publicizes the history and plight of the 900,000 Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa who were forced to leave their homes and abandon their property, who were stripped of their citizenship.

• Historical Society of the Jews from Egypt and International Association of Jews from Egypt

• Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center• World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC).

PRESENT DAY - ISRAELPRESENT DAY - ISRAEL

FOOD AND CULTUREFOOD AND CULTURE

• Ladino- hebrew and spanish• Different prayers and tunes for

wedding and prayers- • Henna- protection against evil eye

and children• Djellaba and tarboush• Kiss on each cheek

MAASLAMA V MAASLAMA V LEHITRAOTLEHITRAOT