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JIMENA - Voice of Forgotten Refugees

Tuesday May 14, 2013
Voice of Isaac Hasbani- Growing up in Lebanon and Israel, born into a family of Syrian Refugees
Isaac Hasbani is a Chicago based Engineer. He was born in November 1947 to a Syrian Jewish family in Beirut. Both of Isaac’s parents came from Damascus and fled Anti-Semitic riots before he was born. His mother was on vacation in Lebanon when her father called and told her “Don’t come back,” he had decided to abandon his clinic and follow her to Lebanon which was considered much safer for Jews at the time. In 1948 the...
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Wednesday May 01, 2013
Voice of Victor Ozair- Life and Exile from Baghdad
Victor Ozair was born in Baghdad, Iraq on April 27, 1930. His name originates from Ezra the Scribe. According to Jewish oral tradition, Ezra the Scribe led the Jews of Babylon who had been exiled after the destruction of the First Temple back to Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. Ezra the Scribe died in Baghdad, never reaching the holy land. His tomb and the city he is buried in is known as Ozair. Victor believes he may be related to...
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Monday Apr 29, 2013
Voice of Joe Samuels- Passover in Baghdad
  JIMENA’s Oral History and Digital Experience Website Project was created in 2010 to record and preserve the testimonies and narratives of Jews displaced from the Middle East and North Africa. This project enables former Mizrahi and Sephardic refugees an opportunity to assert their history and document their stories of human rights abuse, denationalization, displacement, fractured identities, material losses, resettlement and...
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Wednesday Apr 17, 2013
A tribute to Carmen Weinstein
    By: Levana Zamir After her unexpected passing - Carmen Weinstein, 82, had been President of the tiny Jewish Community of Cairo for more than 15 years - Jews from Egypt all over the world are worried: Who will maintain the remaining synagogues? Who will tend the Bassatine Cemetery - or what is left from it - and preserve the many Jewish buildings still belonging to the community? Who will organize the next High Holiday services...
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Friday Apr 12, 2013
Voice of Henriette Eshkenazi
    JIMENA’s Oral History and Digital Experience Website Project was created in 2010 to record and preserve the testimonies and narratives of Jews displaced from the Middle East and North Africa. This project enables former Mizrahi and Sephardic refugees an opportunity to assert their history and document their stories of human rights abuse, denationalization, displacement, fractured identities, material losses, resettlement and...
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