#ultimately small potatoes compared to what palestinians are going through
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having jewish family from n iraq general area is very strange. n iraq area is a bit of an outlier from its neighbors people group-wise because it’s often kurd = muslim; arab = muslim also; assyrian = christian (or at least an overwhelming amount of christians are assyrian); yazidi = yazidi; but jews are called ‘kurdish jews’? they probably just got that label because they were in the area (some have ‘tribal’ last names if they were from the literal towns the tribes got their names from), but for example syrian jews who lived in aleppo/damascus and spoke arabic are called syrian jews, some people use “arab jew” but afaik most don’t
in that context “kurdish jew” seems a little...misleading? “assyrian jew” is too, they were both religious minorities and spoke aramaic but jews have a separate history (and due to current politics it feels insensitive but idk.) and both of those can be used by israeli govt stuff for propaganda purposes, so looking into sources for this is nigh impossible. tbh i prefer ‘mesopotamian jew’
#strange situation overall that i don't think can be solved anytimne soon#*srael pretty much fucked up jewish history research that isnt european#ultimately small potatoes compared to what palestinians are going through#weird pan-’mizrahi’ ethno-anthropology ultimately relates back to it. colonialism & all that#both 'kurdish jew' and 'assyrian jew' sources i managed to find were zionist propaganda. sobs#not to mention it was a very small community and there aren't a ton of descendants in the world in comparison to like. moroccan jews#ironically the most reputable + objective historical account w/ interviews from people who lived it#was compiled by someone currently head of netanyahu's 'ministry of arab affairs'#such is the state of mizrahi jewish history research#there’s also historical records referring to them both as ‘kurdish jews’ and ‘assyrian jews’#but 'kurdish jews' could've been location-based and probably wasn't in the modern context of 'a people'#('kurdish christians' was often used to refer to assyrians for example)#and 'assyrian jews' was also used to refer to s. iraq general area jews and syrian jews#i’d complain about how it’s annoying that jews are ‘their own thing’ unless they’re bene israel/’kurdish’/yemenite etc but#ill uh. explain this in a reblog
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