Lyn Julius
Mizrahi Communities from Brooklyn to Beverly Hills
Summary
In this lecture, Lyn Julius provides an overview of the last waves of Sephardi Jews to move to the United States. Syrian Jews arrived in Brooklyn, NY at the turn of the 20th century. Some 80,000 Jews fled from Iran after the Islamic revolution in 1979 and settled in Great Neck, NY and Beverly Hills, CA. Some of the smaller communities include Ladino-speakers in Seattle, CA, Karaites in San Francisco, CA. She also discusses the migration of Lebanese and Afghan Jews.
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.