Events

POSTPONED: The exiles from Castille in the north of Morocco

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONEDTO A LATER DATE: Tuesday 10 October 2023, 7:30 pm : Expelled from Spain & Portugal, Iberian Jews (megorashim) arrived in North Africa at the end of the 15th Century. Many went to Fez and Marrakesh. However,  one group of megorashim decided to settle on the northern coast […]

EXCEPTIONAL lecture: Who are HAMAS?

Thursday 19 October - please note day and time. 7:00 pm UK/ 11:00 am PT/ 2:00 pm ET /  8:00 pm Europe / 9:00 pm Israel As Hamas’s war with Israel develops following its brutal assault of 7 October, what do we know about this Palestinian jihadist group, founded in 1987 but with ties to the Muslim […]

The last rich Jew of Damascus

Tuesday 24 October, 7:30 pm., 2:30 ET, 11:30 am PT. The eldest son of one of the elite families of Damascus who had made their money under Ottoman rule, Yossef Laniado  was the last rich Jew until his death in 1944. A community leader and only Jewish member of the Syrian parliament,  he mediated between […]

A Forgotten Exodus

Tuesday 7 November 2023, 7:30 pm UK.  The month of November is Mizrahi Heritage Month and culminates in the Commemoration of the Exodus of Jews from Arab countries and Iran on 30 November. We interview Dutch author and film-maker Marcel Prins, who this year completed a two-part documentary on the flight of Jews from the […]

AN EVENING TO MARK THE DEPARTURE AND EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES AND IRAN

  Once again, JW3 is hosting the official UK commemoration in the presence of communal leaders and senior diplomats,  in partnership with Harif, (the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa) and Sephardi Voices UK. This year our theme will be ‘The Jews of North Africa.’ The Jewish communities of North […]

Stories of children from Baghdad

Tuesday 12 December, 7 pm UK. The story of the exodus of the Jews from Arab countries is at last beginning to be told for children. Sarah Sassoon has produced the picture book Shoham's Bangle for young children, a story of one little girl and her grandmother airlifted to the Promised Land. Miriam Halahmy's new […]

From Turkish patriot to repentant Zionist

Tuesday 2 January 2024, 7:30 pm UK. Gad Franco (1881–1954) was a prominent Sephardi journalist, lawyer and jurist, who opposed Zionism and worked relentlessly for the Jewish community’ to be integrated into the Turkish republic. However, the harassment of minorities, inflamed by ethno-nationalism, deepened in the 1930s, peaking during World War II. By then a […]

Jews in the Philippines

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 7:30 pm UK time, 2:30 pm ET. Sephardi Jews in the Philippines?  It might come as a surprise to learn that when the US took control of the archipelago from Spain, some 50 Jewish families lived in the Philippines.  After 1881, Ladino- and Arabic-speaking ‘Ottoman’ Jews, mostly trading in textiles, joined jewellers […]

A taste of Bourekas cinema

Tuesday 30 January 2024. 7pm Uk, 9 pm Israel, 2 pm ET. A genre of comic melodrama produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films such as Sallah Shabati and Kazablan are the Israeli equivalent of the Spaghetti Western.  Named after a popular Sephardi pastry, they grappled with Mizrahi/ Ashkenazi tensions and were among the […]

Harvesting the surnames of Iraq’s Jews

Tuesday 13 February, 7 pm UK, 9 pm Israel. When the Jews of Iraq were expelled in 1951 and in the 1970s, they were not allowed to take with them  vital records. The community archives were seized by the authorities. Enter Jacob Rosen painstakingly  to reconstruct the surnames of the community’s Jews. He will tell […]

Can we save MENA Jewish heritage ?

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 7:30 pm UK, 11:30 am PT.  Harif/ JIMENA joint event. When in 2022 the Egyptian authorities seized a geniza (collection of holy documents) from the Bassatine cemetery in Cairo without consulting a rabbi it was a clear sign that Jewish heritage was no longer deemed to belong to Jews. In Libya, […]

Germans and Nazis in the Middle East

Tuesday 12 March, 7:30 pm UK, 3:30 pm ET, 12:30 PT. The path to Hitler's famous meeting with Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1941 began with the Kaiser's visit to the Ottoman Levant in 1898. Germans played an important role in the Middle East, there were Nazi-inspired Arab individuals, parties and ideologues. Nazism inspired Arab nationalist […]

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