Talk:List of Jews from the Arab World
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Syria, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Syria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. | ||
| NA | This page does not require a rating on the Project's quality scale. | ||
 |
After rating the article, please provide a short summary on the article's ratings summary page to explain your ratings and/or identify the strengths and weaknesses. |
Contents |
[edit] Morocco
Does anyone have external confirmation for Richard Anconina, Patrick Timsit or Georges Ifrah? Anconina was born in Paris and Timsit in Algiers. They're described as Moroccan Jews in [1] — presumably their parents were Moroccan immigrants? All I could find for Ifrah was a Usenet posting describing him as "un Français, juif, né en Afrique du nord". Help would be much appreciated. -Udzu 19:27, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I'm marking those entries unconfirmed, just in case. -Udzu 16:34, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Iraq: Abraham, Jacob, Laban
I have removed the following faulty entries:
1. Abraham. Even if not a mythical figure, could not have been a 'Jew' as this term commonly denotes a follower or descendent of followers of Rabbinic Judaism, which fully developed only after the destruction of the Second Temple. Even if we allow for the traditional point of view, how is Abraham a 'Jew', when the word derives from Jacob's son Judah, who is his descendent?
2. Jacob. By same argument as above.
3. Laban the Aramaic? In the Biblical narrative he is neither an Israelite nor a Jew. Please, do not add nonsense. RCSB 03:09, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Where
Where is his bithplace?
- --Sheynhertzגעשׁ״ך 12:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Omar Sharif
I've read Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub)was originally a Lebanese Jew, anyone know anything about that?
- Half-right. His family is Lebanese, but Catholic not Jewish. He converted to Islam when he married Faten Hamama. Udzu 11:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
