Talk:List of Jews from the Arab world

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Morocco[edit]

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)

Iraq: Abraham, Jacob, Laban[edit]

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)[reply]

Where[edit]

Where is his bithplace?

David Reubeni

--Sheynhertz _געשׁ״ך 12:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Omar Sharif[edit]

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)[reply]

Please stop adding people who are not "Jews from the Arab World"[edit]

People who are born in Brooklyn or France or India or Israel are not "from the Arab World" unless the Arab World has moved since I last looked. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But they have arab roots and some of them carry arabian passports like michel kadoorie who carry iraqi passport till now, also every jew who speak arabic is consider as an arab jew. please make sure about your edits and we have to discuss the names that you removed.

This is a list of Jews from the Arab world, not a list of Jews who speak Arabic. Someone born in Brooklyn to a Polish-Jewish mother and Alegrian-Jewish father is not a "Jew from the Arab World". Jayjg ^(talk) 00:07, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

changing title of article[edit]

'List of Jews from the Arab World' doesnt look like an appropriate title for this. Its content might fail the notability test.

I suggest changing the article title to "List of notable Jews from the Arab World" , or "List of notorious Jews from the Arab World" --Omega Said 03:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity[edit]

Should they be under Kuwait? They were born to an Iraqi father and lived a great deal of their lives in Iraq, thus including them under Iraq is more reasonable.

Cheers!

Yes they are Kuwaiti and they born in Kuwait, They were famous in both Kuwait and Iraq and they made many activities in Iraq, but it is obvious that they were Kuwaiti from their last name. Also, one of their sons said they lived the best days of their life in Kuwait and proud of being part of the Kuwaiti community.

Λuα ^{(Operibus anteire)} 15:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where were they born? Jayjg ^(talk) 01:18, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jerry Seinfeld etc.[edit]

Please stop adding people born in the U.S. or U.K. etc. to this list. Jerry Seinfeld, for example, was born in the U.S. In fact, both his parents were born in the U.S. This is a list of Jews from the Arab World, not a list of Jews who ancestors came from the Arab World. Jayjg ^(talk) 00:56, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Isla Fisher[edit]

As much as I'd like to be able to add Isla Fisher to this list, upon further consideration I don't think that would make sense, because although she was born in Oman, she wasn't Jewish at the time. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:41, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]