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JGSGB Specialist Talk - 7 Feb 2021 2pm – with Lyn Julius: ‘Uprooted: How 3000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight’

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk on a Middle East/North African Jewish theme by Zoom.
 
Date: Sunday 7 February 2021
Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem
Title: Uprooted: How 3000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight
Speaker: Lyn Julius
Description: Until the mass exodus of Christians and Yazidis, the post-1948 displacement of more than 850,000 Jewish refugees was the largest population movement of non-Muslims from the Arab Middle East and North Africa, yet the subject is hardly ever discussed.
Why did Jews leave countries they had been settled in for thousands of years?
What lessons can we learn from the mass exodus of minorities?
What became of the majority who settled in Israel?
How can their cause contribute to peace?

About Lyn Julius

The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, Lyn Julius is a journalist, blogger and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Jewish News, Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, JNS News etc. Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight, her first book, was published in 2018. A Norwegian translation has been produced and it is now being translated into Arabic and Portuguese.

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk.

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts. In particular, if you get stuck in a registration loop, you may want to upgrade the version of Zoom on your PC, but please email me and I can help you through this …

 

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Leigh Dworkin invites you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: JGSGB Specialist Talk: Lyn Julius on “Uprooted: How 3000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world, vanished overnight”

When: Feb 7, 2021 02:00 PM London
Register in advance for this meeting:

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Keep well!

Leigh Dworkin

Chairman, JGSGB
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