History – Inpages Press https://inpages.ca Jews of the Middle East and North Africa Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:17:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Yuliya https://inpages.ca/yuliya/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:07:34 +0000 https://inpages.ca/?p=678 Read More »]]> A new book by the author of Silencing the Past. Yuliya is a historical novella dealing with the period of the first and second World War. |The is about aJewish family in Bizerte, Tunisia. This is an amazing story of how Russians ended up in Tunisia and how one family integrated into the Jewish community of that country. This short story is full of anecdotes and surprising facts about the lives of Tunisians. You can buy the book in Amazon for $.99. 

]]> More Nazi Gold found in sunken ship https://inpages.ca/more-nazi-gold-found-in-sunken-ship/ Tue, 25 Jul 2017 01:43:45 +0000 https://inpages.ca/?p=639 No one is really sure whether  the gold was on route from or to South America. The gold found is estimated at 163 million dollars. It is more likely that Germans began shipping out looted gold as early as 1939. read the full article here.

]]> History of the ancient Iraqian Jewish Community https://inpages.ca/barom-golan-history-of-the-ancient-jewish-community-in-iraq/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:31:58 +0000 https://inpages.ca/?p=556 Read More »]]>

Barhoom Golan is an Israeli lecturer in Bar Ilan. In this lecture he emphasis the role of this ancient Jewish population of Iraq dating back 3000 years, long before Islam. Unfortunately, the video is Hebrew and Arabic. According to Golan the Jews were indeed the indigenous population of the region. Golan is active in promoting peace through historical understanding of who the Jews of the region were throughout history. Here is the link.

]]> The Tunisian Jewish families of Kef https://inpages.ca/the-kef-jewish-families/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:06:18 +0000 https://inpages.ca/?p=533 Read More »]]> The three largest families in Kef are the ALLALI and SABBAH families. Almost all of the Kef families are related through marriages. These three families constitute the central branch of all the Jewish families of Kef. The SMADJA, The BRAMI, ALLALI, The SCEMAMA. Other family names are the BELLAICHE, SARFATI, BORGEL, FITOUSSI, BIJAOUI, TOUITOU, ELFASSI, ASSUIED, ALLOUCHE, BELHASSEN, BOUBLIL, KRIEF, MIMOUNI, SIMAH, SROUSSI. Most family names date back to the 7th and century. Click here for the complete story.

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