Syrian American Jews:
How does research on the Syrian Sephardic Jewish community challenge conventional American ideas about race?
Dr. Mijal Bitton
Syrian Sephardic Jews in New York challenge conventional racial classification and binaries in America. See the Syrian Sephardic community as a part of a broader story of the racialization of Middle Eastern Americans and examine how this group’s trajectory relates to scholarly ways of thinking and offers new questions about Jews, class, and race in the US.
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For More on This Topic
- What’s the Difference Between Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews? – A ten-minute video by Unpacked
- The Syrian Jewish Community: Our Journey Through History – A documentary film series produced by The Sephardic Heritage Museum
- Digital Memories of Jewish Syria – An article by Esther Levy Chehebar
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