THE SECOND HOLOCAUST

The Second Holocaust: The Destruction of Jewish Civilization Across North Africa and the Middle East examines the disappearance of ancient Jewish communities across a region where they had lived for centuries.

For generations, Jewish communities flourished in Baghdad, Cairo, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Damascus, Morocco, Yemen, and beyond. Within a generation, much of that world disappeared.

Drawing on archival records, government documents, historical scholarship, demographic evidence, and personal accounts, Dr. Matthew Weinberg examines the political, legal, social, and ideological forces that transformed these communities into minorities marked by suspicion, dispossession, persecution, and departure. He traces how nearly a million Jews were driven, expelled, denaturalized, frightened, rescued, or otherwise made unable to sustain a future in lands their families had inhabited for centuries.

This is not simply a history of migration. It is an examination of how a civilization can disappear—and of who controls its memory after its people are gone.