Bridging Identities

Reading List

Baser, Bahar, and Duygu Atlas. "Once A Diaspora, Always A Diaspora? The Ethnic, Cultural and Political Mobilization of Kurdistani Jews in Israel." Politics, Religion & Ideology 22.3-4 (2021): 302-328.

Bengio, Ofra. "Jews, Israel and the Kurds: unravelling the myth." Israel Affairs 27.5 (2021): 827-851.

Brauer, Erich. The Jews of Kurdistan: An Ethnological Study. Vol. 2. Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology, 1947.

Brauer, Erich. The Jews of Kurdistan. Wayne State University Press, 1993.

Fischel, Walter J. "The Jews of Kurdistan a Hundred Years Ago: A Traveler's Record." Jewish Social Studies (1944): 195-226.

Gavish, Haya. Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan. Wayne State University Press, 2010.

Graczyk, Agnieszka. "Trapped within the law. Will the Kurdish Jews return to their homeland?." Review of Nationalities 8.1 (2018): 157-166.

Khezri, Haidar. "Kurds, Jews, and Kurdistani Jews: Historic Homelands, Perceptions of Parallels in Persecution, and Allies by Analogy." Religions 13.3 (2022): 253.

Meir-Glitzenstein, Esther. Zionism in an Arab Country: Jews in Iraq in the 1940s. Routledge, 2004.

Sabar, Ariel. My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past. Algonquin Books, 2009.

Sabar, Yona. "The impact of Israeli Hebrew on the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Kurdish Jews of Zakho: a case of language shift." Hebrew Union College Annual 46 (1975): 489-508.

Shai, Donna. "Changes in the oral tradition among the Jews of Kurdistan." Contemporary Jewry (1980): 2-10.

Sharaby, Rachel. "The Seharane Festival in Kurdistan: Closing a Ritual Circle." Constructing Ethnic Identities. Brill, 2022. 113-118.

Shwartz-Be'eri, Ora. The Jews of Kurdistan: Daily life, customs, arts and crafts. No. 439. UPNE, 2000.

Van Bruinessen, Martin. "Religion in Kurdistan." Kurdish Times 4.1-2 (1991): 5-27.

Zaken, Mordechai. "Jewish subjects and their tribal chieftains in Kurdistan: A study in survival." Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan. Brill, 2007.

Saleh, Zainab. "Uprooted Memories: Iraqi Jewish Narratives of Displacement and Longing in Documentary Films." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 43.1 (2023): 110-121.

Bashkin, Orit. Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel. Stanford University Press, 2017.

Sharaby, Rachel. "The renewal of an ethnic tradition and its role in shaping the Kurds immigrants’ identity." Immigrants & Minorities 35.2 (2017): 129-147.