Born into one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities, Edwin Shuker fled Baghdad as a child. Decades later, he has become a bridge between Jews and Arabs, and a guardian of a fading history.
Powerful storytelling about a comunity that's been erased from the historical memory. The detail about Shuker scrubbing his skin as a child, asking why God made him Jewish, hit hard. What gets me is how he's turned that trauma into bridge-building work through the Abraham Accords. The fact that he feels safer in the UAE than Europe right now says alot about where antisemitism has migrated. I wonder how many stories like his exist from the mass exodus of Mizrahi Jews that never get told because the narrativ focuses elsewhere.
Powerful storytelling about a comunity that's been erased from the historical memory. The detail about Shuker scrubbing his skin as a child, asking why God made him Jewish, hit hard. What gets me is how he's turned that trauma into bridge-building work through the Abraham Accords. The fact that he feels safer in the UAE than Europe right now says alot about where antisemitism has migrated. I wonder how many stories like his exist from the mass exodus of Mizrahi Jews that never get told because the narrativ focuses elsewhere.
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