21 January 2025 at 7.30pm at the Hohenems Jewish Museum
This lecture by Thomas Schmidinger will look at the Jewish diaspora in Kurdistan, one of the oldest in the world. Nevertheless, the majority of Kurdish Jews were forced to leave in the second half of the 20th century. Political scientist and social and cultural anthropologist Thomas Schmidinger led a Future Fund research project in 2022/23 on the cultural remains of the Jews of Kurdistan.