Showing posts with label Jewish Community of Tunisia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish Community of Tunisia. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2012

The Muslim World Is Almost Judenrein. And Then There Is Israel

Michael Totten writes about The Last Jews of Tunisia:
Jews lived all over the Middle East and North Africa for thousands of years, and they lived among Arab Muslims for more than 1,000 years, but they’re almost extinct now in the Arab world. Arabs and Jews didn’t live well together, exactly, but they co-existed five times longer than the United States has existed. They weren’t always token minorities, either. Baghdad was almost a third Jewish during the first half of the 20th century. Morocco and Tunisia are the last holdouts. In Tunisia, only 1,500 remain.
Totten quotes a short exchange with a Jewish restaurant owner in Tunisia. The restaurant is named Mamie Lily, in the posh Tunis suburb of La Goulette.