The Jews in Arab lands certainly didn't have it easy.
Saved by a liquor glass, betrayed by friends
In the neglected history of Jews from Arab countries, 1941 is remembered as the year of the (1/ 2 June) Farhud, the brutal Nazi-inspired pogrom against the Jews of Iraq, which claimed at least 179 lives. But a mini-Farhud also took place in Tunisia almost exactly 73 years ago, an event scarcely mentioned by Tunisian Jews eager to reminisce about their idyllic childhoods. Lyn Julius blogs in the Jerusalem Post:
In Tunisia too, feverish pro-Nazi sentiment had spread. On 20 May 1941, the Arabs of Gabes, fired up by the propaganda of the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al- Husseini and the defeat of France by the Nazis, murdered seven Jews on the Place de La Synagogue in what became know as the Gabes pogrom.
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Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: Saved by a liquor glass, betrayed by friends
Saved by a liquor glass, betrayed by friends
In the neglected history of Jews from Arab countries, 1941 is remembered as the year of the (1/ 2 June) Farhud, the brutal Nazi-inspired pogrom against the Jews of Iraq, which claimed at least 179 lives. But a mini-Farhud also took place in Tunisia almost exactly 73 years ago, an event scarcely mentioned by Tunisian Jews eager to reminisce about their idyllic childhoods. Lyn Julius blogs in the Jerusalem Post:
In Tunisia too, feverish pro-Nazi sentiment had spread. On 20 May 1941, the Arabs of Gabes, fired up by the propaganda of the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al- Husseini and the defeat of France by the Nazis, murdered seven Jews on the Place de La Synagogue in what became know as the Gabes pogrom.
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Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: Saved by a liquor glass, betrayed by friends
