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Conference “Just graves and ruins? What remains of the Jewish communities of Kurdistan”

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 ...

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Conference “Commitment, survival and resistance: the Jews of Tunisia at a time of peril”

8 December 2024 at 2pm at the Shoah Memorial For the Nazis, the Shoah was not an ambition limited to Europe. The advance of the Allied troops prevented this ambition to materialize on every continent. Nevertheless, the occupation of Tunisia by Axis forces raised fears of a fate similar to that of European Jews, with brutal measures taken against the local Jewish population. Fortunately, the ...

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