Lyn Julius
Sephardi Post-War Migrations to the West
Summary
The majority of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries left for Israel in the second half of the 20th century, but hundreds of thousands migrated to the West. This lecture examines the factors that influenced their choice of destination and the kinds of reception the refugees received in the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, etc.
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (www.harif.org). Lyn blogs daily at Point of No Return (www.jewishrefugees.org.uk). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Jewish News, and Jerusalem Post. She has a regular column in the Times of Israel and JNS News. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight has been translated in to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic, and a Hebrew version is in progress.