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Thu 04 Apr 2009Convincing portrait of a Jewish group discriminated against within Israel
BOOK OF THE DAY: RICHARD CROWLEYreviews Not The Enemy: Israel’s Jews From Arab LandsBy Rachel Shabi, Yale University Press. pp320, £18.99
WHO ARE the Mizrahi Jews? Even the book’s subtitle “Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands” does not adequately describe them. Along with Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, the Mizrahi also came from Iran and Turkey. Jews from the Arab and Muslim countries would be more accurate.
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