My Jewish identity can never truly be questioned, even if others don’t think I look the part, a college student writes. My freshman year in college, I met a woman who identified as a Mizrahi Jew.

Kurdish Jews, and “Musta’arabin” (Arabized) or Mizrahi Jews, whose families never left the Levant. Of these, the Jews of Aleppo and Qamishli have departed in their entirety. The seven or ...

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 ...

Descriptions of Jewish life often divide communities up into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Spain and Portugal expelled Jewish inhabitants in the late 1400s, sending ...

I worked on the Sephardi Voices oral history project during college, and have been long fascinated by the history of the Mizrahi Jewish population. Likewise, my friend who joined me for this ...