MENA JEWISH RESOURCE LIST
Books
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism
The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage (for a preview, read Nadav’s literary review) by Loolwa Khazzom
Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundreds Years of Literary Legacy by Diane Matza
We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Jews from Arab Lands
On the Arab‑Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements by Ella Shohat
Jews, Muslims, and the Limits of Tolerance by Devin Naar
Salonica: City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History by Massoud Hayoun
Mongrels or Marvels The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin
Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza
Recording History:Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa By Christopher Silver
Let Jasmine Rain Down Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Unknown Past Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt by Hanan Hammad
From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture by Saba Soomekh
Victoria by Sami Michael
Jewish Libya Memory and Identity in Text and Image by Jacques Roumani, Judith Roumani, David Meghnagi
Impressions of my Youth in Lebanon by Gabrielle Elia
Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Postcolonial Times by Emily Benichou Gottreich
The Sultan's Communists Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging by Alma Rachel Heckman
Academic Articles
Ella Shohat - Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims
Ella Shohat - The Invention of the Mizrahim
Israel: Where do the Mizrahim fit in? Part I & Part II
Lital Levy, “Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Mashriq”
Emily Benichou Gottreich- Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib
When does a native become a settler?
Reuven Snir : “The aim of my project is to save Arab-Jewish culture from oblivion”
We Are Arabs Before We Are Jews by Reuven Snir
Jewish National Communist Movement in Iraq A Case of Anti-Zionist League in 1946
1959 — Wadi Salib Riots: Culminating a Decade of Ethnic Discrimination by Lev Luis Grinberg
Feminist Identity vs Oreintal identity by Vicki Shiran
Zionism's Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews
Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine by Smadar Lavie
Jewish Mysticism in the Lands of the Ishmaelites: A Re-Orientation by Ronald Kiener
Ishaq al-Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine
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Jews from Arab Countries and the Palestinian Right for Return: An Ethnic Community in Realms of National Memory by Yehouda Shenhav |
Podcasts
Ella Shohat - Mizrahi historian and academic.
The Iraqi Jewish Left with Orit Baskin
Mizrahi-Palestinian Solidarity with Sigal Samuel
Mizrahi Resistance to Anti-Arab Racism
Reclaiming Arab Judaism with The Palestine Pod
Laughing Our Way to Peace with Noam Shuster-Eliassi and Hadar Cohen with Jewish Ancestral Healing
Mizrahi Activism, Jerusalem In Exile, and the Sacred Practice of Falling on Ones Face with Jewish Ancestral Healing
Breaking Walls: Historical and Contemporary Mizrahi Feminist Struggles for Israel/Palestine Housing with Sapir Sluzker Amran and Dr. Yali Hashash
Archival Projects
Music Archival Projects
Gharamophone - North African Jewish Music Archive Project
Tuning Baghdad - Regine Basha
Selichot Project - Hadar Cohen
Talks
Ongoing Nakba, Mizrahi Marginalization and Ashkenazi Hegemony with Tom Mehager hosted by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard Divinity School, February 6, 2020
Transnational Mizrahi Feminism with Sivan Tahel and Hadar Cohen
Affirmative Squatting - Mizrahi Women in Israel Correct Past Injustices with Dr. Claris Harbon
Mizrahi Identity in the US hosted by the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies with Tamar Zaken, Hadar Cohen, and Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, November 12, 2020
A series Jewish Network for Palestine webinars, chaired by Prof. Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, SOAS, March 2022
- Nullified by Holocaust and Nakba: Arabised-Jews, 1937-1956, Dr. Moshe Behar, University of Manchester
- Remembering the 1950s by Dr. Hilla Dayan, Amsterdam University College
- Factories and Walls: Mizrahi and Palestinian Labor in Jerusalem 1950-2005 by Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
The Beirut Banyan on Lebanese Jews with Gabrielle Elia
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