Podcasts
Explore JIMENA's collection of podcasts featuring engaging conversations, personal stories, and expert perspectives on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish history, culture, identity, and contemporary life. Through interviews, storytelling, and thought-provoking discussions, these episodes amplify diverse voices and illuminate the experiences, traditions, and contributions of Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa and their diasporas.
Podcasts
Season 2, Episode 1: Tunisia
Writer Hen Mazzig traces his family's journey from Tunisia, including life under Nazi occupation, while historian Lucette Valensi explores Tunisian Jewish history.
Leaving Iran
Author Roya Hakakian describes growing up Jewish in Iran before and after the 1979 revolution, with historical context from scholar Saba Soomekh.
Sudan
The little known story of Sudan's small Jewish community, told through family memories and the work of an oral historian.
Egypt
Acclaimed novelist Andre Aciman recalls his family's expulsion from Alexandria while historian Deborah Starr explains the rise and departure of Egypt's Jewish community.
Iraq
The series premiere traces 2,600 years of Iraqi Jewish life, the 1941 Farhud, and the exodus that followed, through a cartoonist's family story and a historian's context.
A chat with the head of JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
In this public radio interview, Sarah Levin explains the displacement of nearly a million Jews from the Middle East and North Africa and the rich diversity of Sephardic and Mizrahi communities.
Episode 63: JIMENA: Mizrahi and Sephardi Voices
Sarah Levin shares moving excerpts from JIMENA's Oral History Project, including the voices of Gina Waldman and Rachel Wahba, and reflects on why these family stories matter.
Sephardic and Mizrahi Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience (Ep. 18)
JIMENA's executive director joins two fellow community leaders for a thoughtful conversation about Sephardic and Mizrahi life in America today.