The Jewish Diaspora after 1945: A Study of Jewish Communities in the Middle East and North Africa
For Jews across the Middle East and North Africa, the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel was a transformational period—in both the build-up to it and its aftermath. Using this momentous event as its focal point, this book takes the reader on a journey to remote destinations in the 20th century Jewish experience, examining aspects of Jewish history that have hardly ever been discussed in one place and in such an intriguing combination. Jews have played an integral role in the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, and North Africa for millennia. Their lives were intertwined with those of the majority non-Jewish communities among whom they dwelt: their mass expulsion and emigration after World War II ended the existence of a vital part of nearly all the societies in the region.
S. Behnaz Hosseini is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group at the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is also a Middle East analyst with Persian media, and is working as an expert consultant with the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL. She has conducted extensive research on minorities in the Middle East and has worked as an expert on ISIS crimes against religious minorities in Iraq. Her most recent publications are Trauma and the Rehabilitation of Trafficked Women: The Experiences of Yazidi Survivors (2020) and Yārsān of Iran, Socio-Political Changes and Migration (2020). Dr Hosseini completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna, with a focus on the Yārsān, a religious minority in Iran, and trans-nationalism in Sweden. During 2017-2018, she carried out research on child marriage and suicide among the Kurdish community in Iran, and she continues to be involved in the same line of work in Oxford.
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