Mizrahi Jewry
The noted author and political thinker drops by our studio to talk about his other passion: Israeli music and the ways it has shaped the country.
Israel’s Mizraḥi Rihanna.
The majority of Israeli Jews, Lyn Julius points out in her book Uprooted, are not new to the Middle East—they were moved from one part of it to another.
Four-million dollars is a small price to pay for ethnic cleansing.
In 1960s Israel, Arabic-speaking Jews were invaluable as spies for their new country. In normal life, they were marginalized.
The journalist and author joins us to talk about Israel as a Mizraḥi nation.
Sasson Somekh vs. the “woke” version of Mizrahi history.
Israel as “part of the continuum of Judaism in the Muslim world.”
No, Israelis are not “European colonizers.”
The Unorthodox.
Mizraḥi Jewry and the history of Israel’s southern frontier.
What happened to the 470,000 Jews who lived there?
But a different scandal was covered up.
A Jewish version of an Islamic practice, later adopted by Muslims.
