Workbook
For Mizrahi (American) Families
A Workbook for Jewish Families From the Arab World — and the Double Marginalization That Comes With That History
Your grandmother sang in Arabic. That is not a contradiction — it is the truth of who you are.
For the American family with Mizrahi roots — from Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, or other Arab and Muslim-majority countries — who has experienced cultural erasure within Ashkenazi-dominated Jewish institutions and wants to reclaim, document, and pass on their distinct Arab-Jewish heritage.
The Name It First Experience
Mizrahi Jewish families navigate a unique double displacement: from Arab homelands where ancestors lived for centuries, and within American Jewish institutions that treat Ashkenazi culture as default. You document family narratives, reconnect with traditions your grandparents carried, explore the grief and resilience of Arab-Jewish identity, and map how you pass this heritage forward. The output is not a history of erasure. It is The Mizrahi Heritage Accord — a stress-tested, signed family document claiming Arab-Jewish identity with specificity and pride.
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Sample questions
- What is the specific heritage your family carries — Moroccan, Iraqi, Yemeni, Syrian — and what parts of that culture have been lost to assimilation into Ashkenazi-dominant institutions?
- When your family's Arab-Jewish identity goes unrecognized — in Jewish spaces, in American Arab spaces, in both — what do you do with that erasure?
- What would the Mizrahi Identity and Boundary Accord say about the full specificity of your family's heritage — Arab, Jewish, and everything that synthesis actually means?
Research basis
Shohat on Mizrahi identity and Ashkenazi hegemony / Lagnado on Iraqi Jewish family memory / Phinney and Umana-Taylor on ethnic identity development / Berry on acculturation / Bowen on family narratives and cultural patterns.
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