Historical Society of Jews From Egypt

04/01/2026

Celebrating our Freedom
Hag Sameah

Rabbi Albert Gabbai celebrated Passover from a prison cell in Cairo, imprisoned alongside hundreds of other Jews. Decades later, in Brooklyn, he and his fami...

10/16/2025

The elimination of Jewish history from the arab countries .. The other main synagogue in the city, The Great Synagogue of Algiers, has already been converted into a mosque.

Local sources said that the demolition had been planned for several years but was delayed due to interventions from an unspecified foreign embassy.

09/16/2025

EGYPTIAN BORN LEVANA ZAMIR ADDRESSING THE U.N

Levana Zamir 90 seconds speech, at General Assembly of United Nations Human Rights - Sept. 10, 2025

07/23/2025

https://culturalpropertynews.org/cairos-synagogue-and-cemetery-restoration-projects-seized-geniza-never-recovered/

Egypt’s Jewish Restoration Projects: Seized Geniza Still Missing

Since the number of Jews remaining in Egypt can now be counted on one hand, the Sisi government’s focus is exclusively on promoting foreign tourism, not on restoring cultural ties with the Egyptian Jewish diaspora. Cairo’s Jewish population numbered almost 50,000 before the 1956 and 1967 wars. The forced emigration of the vast majority of Egyptian Jews in the mid-20th century left the Ben Ezra synagogue deserted and dilapidated for decades.

Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo is Restored for Tourism A restoration project undertaken in 2022 by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities culminated in a grand opening with Egyptian dignitaries at the end of August

07/18/2025

Summary: The history of the Egyptian Jews from 1956 to 1970 is
presented.
Egyptian Jewry under the Nasser regime, 1956-70.
By; Michael M. Laskier

07/09/2025

https://www.hsje.org/library/THE_ARABIC_DIALECT_OF_JEWS_IN_MODERN_EGYPT.pdf
THE ARABIC DIALECT OF JEWS IN MODERN EGYPT
Jews living in various parts of the Arab world sometimes spoke distinctive Arabic dialects,2 differing in a number of respects from the Arabic spoken by their Muslim and Christian neighbors. As Haim Blanc has pointed out, however, until recently the Arabic spoken by the Jews of Egypt in the twentieth century has been thought to differ very little from that spoken by non-Jews.

05/12/2025

$60 billion in compensation and a necessary official apology, will both make Egypt a better country, truly worthy of all its people, in all their diversity.

$60 billion in compensation and a necessary official apology, will both make Egypt a better country, truly worthy of all its people, in all their diversity.

05/12/2025

In essence, the Jews of Egypt founded Egypt's modern economy. How did Egypt's rulers thank them? Denial of citizenship, denial of employment, massacres, property confiscation, and detention and torture in Egypt's notorious prisons for years.

In essence, the Jews of Egypt founded Egypt’s modern economy. How did Egypt’s rulers thank them? Denial of citizenship, denial of employment, massacres,

04/21/2025

https://www.hsje.org/mystory/IsraelBonan/A_Perosnal_Exodus_Story.html
A Personal Exodus Story
This story was written as the positive act of a 'witness', witnessing what transpired to my family and me, during the early days of June 1967; having been deported from Egypt and having immigrated subsequently to America. The story starts on the first day of the 'six days' war and takes us step by step from jail to jail and finally onto a freighter to reach the first safe haven of many, Crete, Koln, Paris and finally America.

04/11/2025

https://www.hsje.org/mystory/ShearithIsrael/Out_of_Egypt.html

04/11/2025

https://youtu.be/Z19fvAXuDWs?si=3YUuF-YJnzP4YHqc

[This is a better-quality remake of a video uploaded last year.]Talk I gave in 2004, describing my growing up as a Jew in Egypt, and the harassment, persecut...