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9 statements
01Evidence and context
By about 1950, local politics, rather than Nazi occupation, had ended most Middle Eastern Jewish communities.
During the Farhud of June 1 and 2, 1941, demobilized soldiers joined by tribesmen and ordinary Baghdadis killed 180 Jews.
A November 1945 pogrom in Libya killed 140 Jews and destroyed five synagogues.
June 1948 riots in Libya killed 12 Jews and wrecked 280 Jewish houses.
Further riots before Libyan independence in 1951 drove some 30,000 Jews to leave.
Aleppo's 1947 pogrom sent 7,000 of the city's 10,000 Jews into flight.
In 1949 Syria froze Jewish bank accounts, seized property, and dismissed nearly all Jewish civil servants.
Roughly 800,000 Jews from Arab countries were uprooted and stripped of property once Israel existed.
Rioters in Aleppo burned three hundred Jewish houses and eleven synagogues, and two thousand Jews left. In Aden, seventy-six Jews were killed.
Context
A November 1945 pogrom in Libya killed 140 Jews and destroyed five synagogues.
June 1948 riots in Libya killed 12 Jews and wrecked 280 Jewish houses.
Further riots before Libyan independence in 1951 drove some 30,000 Jews to leave.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 03Historiography
What scholars debate
Scholarly debate · 01
Should Jews who left Arab lands be treated as refugees equivalent to the Palestinians?
2 positions · no single answer · take a seat →
- A
Equivalent refugees
The Israeli official position, as the chapter reports it
The state treats these Jews as refugees and draws their fate close to the Palestinian fate; some even speak of a "Jewish nakba".
- B
Unfounded analogy
Yehouda Shenhav
Palestinians did not want to leave. Jews from Arab lands came at the initiative of Israel and Jewish organizations, some willingly, some against their will.
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Howard M. Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (New York: Knopf, 2001).
A history of Israel · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 459inspect
- 09Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 462inspect
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