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Don’t Look Back: Holocaust Survivors in the U.S.

October 1, 1991 | William Helmreich

Where Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers deals with Jews who came to America between 1881 and 1917, there is no World of Our Fathers about the 140,000 European Holocaust survivors who came to the United States after World War II or even about the other two-thirds of the survivors who came to Israel.

The Other Refugees: Jews of the Arab World

June 1, 1988 | Dr. George E. Gruen

Jews have lived in the Arab-speaking countries of western Asia and North Africa for millennia. Indeed, in certain countries such as Iraq, Yemen and Morocco, Jewish communities can be traced back to the period of the first exile, following the destruction of the Temple by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. If one includes the Muslim but non-Arab countries of Iran and Turkey, more than one million Jews lived in this region before the establishment of Israel in 1948.

Survivors of the Spanish Exile: The Underground Jews of Ibiza

February 10, 1988 | Gloria Mound

[Editor's Note: The amazing persistence of secret Jews in Spain and Portugal is one of the most humanly compelling Jewish stories of the 20th century. As those two countries undergo liberalization, more evidence of a continued secret Jewish presence over the past 500 years comes to the fore.