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Jews of Egypt, 1869 – 1956
Tuesday 18 March, 7:30 pm UK, 3:30 pm ET, 12:30 pm PT, 8:30 pm Europe. With the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, hundreds of thousands of immigrants moved […]
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The Exchange of Refugees – special event
Tuesday 25 March, 7 pm UK, 9 pm Israel. Little notice has been paid to the fate of the 850,000 Jewish refugees from the Arab states, about 550,000 of whom […]
My Exodus story
As we approach Passover, the festival which marks the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and celebrates their freedom, three Jews talk about their personal exodus from Arab countries - […]
Can we preserve Judeo-Arabic for the next generation?
Tuesday 22 April 2025, 7:30 pm UK, 2:30 pm ET. Samantha Ellis’s mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how […]
Eighty years since the 1945 Tripolitania pogrom
Tuesday 6 May, 7 pm UK time, 9 pm Israel. It is 80 years since 130 Libyan Jews were brutally killed during three days in November 1945 in Tripoli and elsewhere in Tripolitania. Shops and homes were looted, synagogues burnt down, such as the Zawia synagogue shown here, and property destroyed. This tragic episode, which […]
Tunisian Jews under Nazi rule
Tuesday 20 May, 7 pm UK, 9 pm Israel, 2 pm ET, 8 pm Europe. For seven months during WWII, the 100,000-member Jewish community of Tunisia came under direct Nazi rule. They had already been subject to anti-Jewish Vichy laws. Now they were exposed to the whims of German SS Officers led by Einsatzgruppen commander […]
Home, migration and food! Linda Dangoor at JW3
Tuesday 10 June, 7:30 pm, in person at JW3. Join us in conversation with food writer Linda Dangoor as she launches her second cookbook, From the Tigris to the Thames. The book is a tapestry, part memoir and part cookbook, where she interweaves recipes with personal reflections on the idea of home and belonging. Lyn […]
The rise and fall of the ‘Rothschilds of the East’
Tuesday 17 June 2025, 7:30 pm UK, 8:30 pm Europe, 2:30 pm ET, 11:30 am PT. The Camondos were Sephardi Jews who settled in Istanbul at the end of the 18th century. Known as the 'Rothschilds of the East,' they accumulated great wealth when they became primary bankers to the Ottoman empire. In 1869 the […]
Sleeping with the SS (UK Film Premiere and Q&A, JW3)
Monday 30 June 2025, 7:30 pm, in-person at JW3. This film is being shown for the first time in the UK and is based on the true story of Ziko, a nine-year-old orphan from Salonica. Ziko joins a group of Greek Jews from Volos sheltering on the Pelion mountain. During WWII they were saved from […]
Songs for the brokenhearted
Wednesday 23 July, 7 pm UK, 9 pm Israel. Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari is a historical novel set in Israel and New York City. A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter—the debut […]
Stars of the Algerian music hall
Tuesday 26 August, 7:30 pm UK, 8:30 pm Europe. The great pianist and composer Maurice El-Medioni was a personal friend of film-maker and illustrator Didier Zulli. El-Medioni was one of several Jewish stars of the Algerian music hall : Line Monty, Blond-Blond, Salim Halali, Youssef Hagege. Didier Zulli, who was born in Paris of Tunisian […]
The antisemitic roots of Arab nationalism
Tuesday 9 September 2025, 7:30 pm UK. While European antisemitism influenced Arab nationalist politics, it was not its source. As Arab nationalism took shape, some strands of the movement saw Jewish nationalism as a threat to Arab independence. With the creation of the Arab League in 1945, implacable opposition to Jewish self-determination had become a […]
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