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21 August 2015
In Honor of Abraham D. Sofaer, Former US District Judge, Southern District of New York |
In Honor of Abraham D. Sofaer, Former US District Judge, Southern District of New York
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“India to start heritage tours for Indian-origin Jews” By Harinder Mishra, Press Trust of India While Indian PM Narendra Modi will soon be the first Indian PM to visit the Jewish state, India doesn’t only want to strengthen the ties between the Indian and Israeli governments, it wants to strengthen the connection between Israel’s 85,000 Indian Jews and the land of India, “the land of their forefathers.”
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 Magen David Synagogue, Mumbai, India, 2011 (Erin Okabe-Jawdat/Diarna Geo-Museum) |
By Harinder Mishra, Press Trust of India
Magen David Synagogue, Mumbai, India, 2011 (Erin Okabe-Jawdat/Diarna Geo-Museum)
 The Smouha Sporting Club, established in 1949, still hosts football, gymnastics, and swimming tournaments in Alexandria, Egypt (Photo courtesy of the Government of Alexandria)
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“Joseph Smouha’s legacy lives on in Egypt” By Lyn Julius, Jerusalem Post Joseph Smouha was an Iraqi-Jewish cotton trader from England who, in the first half of the 20th century, built a garden city in Alexandria, Egypt. Said King Faud, “He was the only foreigner who came to the country, brought his own money and did good to the country.” When Egypt’s nationalist leaders later expelled the Jews, they expelled Smouha too, taking his property and possessions in the process.
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The Smouha Sporting Club, established in 1949, still hosts football, gymnastics, and swimming tournaments in Alexandria, Egypt (Photo courtesy of the Government of Alexandria)
By Lyn Julius, Jerusalem Post
Joseph Smouha was an Iraqi-Jewish cotton trader from England who, in the first half of the 20th century, built a garden city in Alexandria, Egypt. Said King Faud, “He was the only foreigner who came to the country, brought his own money and did good to the country.” When Egypt’s nationalist leaders later expelled the Jews, they expelled Smouha too, taking his property and possessions in the process.
Lamp inside the former Beth Shalom Synagogue, Surabaya, Indonesia, 2007
In the course of preserving Jewish historical sites in the Middle East and North Africa, Diarna has gathered unique documentation on other Jewish places around the world. In the case of Surabaya, we are proud to present exclusive footage, filmed several years ago, of every page of the Jewish cemetery’s burial book (which has since disappeared) and the majority of the gravestones in the cemetery.
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“Harris on Gamliel, ‘Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women’” By Rachel S. Harris, H-Judaic Thanks to the adoption of Western manners in Israel, “the Yemenite Jewish practice of wailing at funerals and in the first three days of the shiva (week of mourning) faces extinction.” A recently published study documents this tradition, soon to disappear, by painting “the picture of a wailer, the culture that [fostered] this tradition in Yemen, and its evolution in the Israeli context.” |
 The Ma’alla Street cemetery stands as a silent testament to a once vibrant Jewish community at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula (Photo courtesy of Ben Ragsdale/Diarna Geo-Museum) |
By Rachel S. Harris, H-Judaic
Thanks to the adoption of Western manners in Israel, “the Yemenite Jewish practice of wailing at funerals and in the first three days of the shiva (week of mourning) faces extinction.” A recently published study documents this tradition, soon to disappear, by painting “the picture of a wailer, the culture that [fostered] this tradition in Yemen, and its evolution in the Israeli context.”
The Ma’alla Street cemetery stands as a silent testament to a once vibrant Jewish community at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula (Photo courtesy of Ben Ragsdale/Diarna Geo-Museum)
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