In the twenty years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948,
800,000 Jews left their homes in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Libya,
Morocco, and several other Arab countries. Although the causes of
this exodus varied, restrictive governmental measures and an
outburst of anti-Semitic feeling during and after the war were
major factors. Some of these "Mizrahi" Jews, most of whom were not
active Zionists, were forced to leave behind property of great
financial and ancestral value-property that was sometimes seized by
the governments of the countries they fled.
In this book, Michael R. Fischbach, who has dedicated years to
studying land and property ownership in the context of the
Arab-Israeli conflict, reconstructs the circumstances in which
Jewish communities left the Arab world. Conducting meticulous and
exhaustive research in the archives of Washington D.C., Jerusalem,
London, New York, and elsewhere, Fischbach offers the most
authoritative estimates to date of the value of the property left
behind. He also describes the process by which various actors, most
importantly the State of Israel, linked the resolution of Jewish
property claims to the fate of Palestinian refugee property claims
following the 1948 war.
Fischbach considers the implications of contemporary
developments, such as America's invasion of Iraq,
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and Libya's attempt to shed its
international pariah status, which have impacted pending claims and
will affect claims in the future. Overall, he finds that many
international Jewish organizations have supported the link between
the claims of Mizrahi Jews and those of Palestinian refugees,
hindering serious efforts to obtain restitutionor compensation.
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