As an Iranian Jewish American ... but today it remains a beloved tradition among many Mizrahi families (Jews from the Middle East and North Africa). Each sign is accompanied by a blessing that ...
Likewise, my friend who joined me for this performance is of Iranian Jewish descent, and has been researching into her heritage of late. Mizrahi stories are so often overlooked, and this felt like ...
Descriptions of Jewish life often divide communities up into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews ... to the Iberian Peninsula: from Persian Jews and Kurdish Jews to Bukharan ...
Zeeva Bukai wrote The Anatomy of Exile from the perspective of a familiar literary figure: the anxious Jewish mother. But in this novel about a Mizrahi Israeli family moving to America ...