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Arab Jew
Arab Jews ( '; ') is a term for Jews living in or originating from the Arab world. Many left or were expelled from Arab countries in the decades following the founding of Israel in 1948, and took up residence in Israel, Western Europe, the United States and Latin America. The term is controversial and politically contested in the diaspora and Israel, where the term "Mizrahi Jews" was adopted by the early state instead. However, a minority of anti-Zionist Jews of Mizrahi origin actively elect to call themselves "Arab Jews". quote:"it is not surprising that very few Jews of Arab descent, in Israel, would label themselves ‘Arab Jews’. It has turned out to be the marker of a cultural and political avant-garde. Most of those who used it, did so in order to challenge the Zionist order of things (i.e., ‘methodological Zionism’; see Shenhav, 2006) and for political reasons (Levy, 2008) However, Jews living in Arab lands have historically not identified themselves as Arabs or Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jews From The Arab World
Until the 20th century, Jews accounted for a significant minority among the populations of West Asia and North Africa, which has mostly consisted of the Arab world since the early Muslim conquests. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the majority of the Arab world's Jews—numbering around 900,000 people—Jewish exodus from the Muslim world, left or were expelled in waves of mass movement that continued until the 1970s. Roughly 72% of these refugees were absorbed by Israel and the remainder largely by the Western world. This article provides a list of prominent Jews with either full or partial origins in the territory of the Arab world from as far back as the early medieval era. Al-Andalus (Arab Spain) * Dunash ben Labrat, commentator, poet, and grammarian * Maimonides, Mūsā ibn Maymūn, medieval philosopher and Torah scholar * Moses ibn Ezra, Abu Harun Musa bin Ya'acub ibn Ezra, philosopher and linguist * Hasdai ibn Shaprut, scholar, physician, and diplomat Algeria * Isaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
