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Lyn Julius
"Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World 
Vanished Overnight"

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?

Lyn Julius undertakes to answer all these questions and more in Uprooted, the culmination of 10 years of work studying these issues.

Jews lived continuously in the Middle East and North Africa for almost 3,000 years. Yet, in just 50 years, their indigenous communities outside Palestine almost totally disappeared as more than 99 percent of the Jewish population fled. Some 650,000 went to Israel. Before the Holocaust they constituted 10 percent of the world’s Jewish population, and now over 50 percent of Israel’s Jews are refugees from Arab and Muslim countries, or their descendants.

This same process is now repeating in Christian and other minority communities across the Middle East.

The book also assesses how well these Jews have integrated into Israel and how their struggles have been politicised. It charts the growing clamour for recognition, redress and memorialisation for these Jewish refugees, and looks at how their cause can contribute to peace and reconciliation between Israel and the Muslim world.