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The occasion for gathering at Café Kotti is the return of one of our friends to Israel. I think about my two Iranian friends and about my parents and my friend’s parents who immigrated to Israel. What option should I choose: should I learn German and go through cultural erasure? Should I remain frustrated and cling to my language with all my might? The second generation of Mizrahim (Arab-Jews) in Israel went through an erasure whose effects we feel to the present day. They were given new “non-Arab” names; their traditions were denied. The wound is unbearable. But the third generation of Mizrahim rose up against that erasure and are rebuilding an Arabic memory, language and music. It’s no coincidence that Dikla, Rabid Kalhani, Dudu Tassa, Neta Alkayam and others have returned to singing in their parent’s native tongue – the Arabic language. 972mag/at-the-exiled-iranian-parliament-in-berlin/92370/
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:46:14 +0000

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