Cairo pogroms
The Cairo pogroms were a bloody outbreak of anti-Semitic unrest by Muslim residents in Egypt against the Jewish community of Cairo . These began at the end of 1945 and lasted until 1949, when there were bomb attacks and murders.
Course of the pogroms
In 1945, with the rise of Arab nationalism in the Kingdom of Egypt and the spread of anti-Jewish and anti-Western sentiments among the Muslim population, unrest broke out. At least 10 Jews were killed and 350 injured in the bloody actions. A synagogue , a Jewish hospital and a Jewish hospital were burned down. Members of the Young Egyptian Party also took part in the pogroms .
Numerous acts of violence against Egyptian Jews followed in the following years. In 1948 there were bombings in the Jewish Quarter, killing 70 Jews and injuring over 200. The anti-Semitic unrest that took place at the same time claimed far more lives. In 1949, a bomb attack in Cairo's Jewish Quarter killed 34 residents and seriously injured 80.
During the 1950s, the events of 1949 were barely dealt with, if at all, while the Jews of Egypt suffered political instability due to the ongoing Israeli-Egyptian conflict and were sporadically exposed to further violence. This eventually led to the displacement and the flight of almost all of Egypt's Jewish community.
Individual evidence
- ^ Virtual library: Modern Jewish history
- ↑ a b CPA: Pogroms in Cairo
- ↑ Mangoubi, Rami, "A Jewish Refugee Answers Youssef Ibrahim," Middle East Times , October 30, 2004.