The Untold Expulsion of Sephardi Jews from Arab Lands: Preserving Jewish Memory

This webinar is presented by Henry A. Green, Ph.D. Professor of Religious Studies, University of Miami
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 
Time: 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET 
Webinar length is approx 90 mins, ZOOM link will be sent a few days before the event.

Professor Green’s book, Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands, sheds light on the experiences of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews displaced from Arab lands in the decades following the founding of Israel. Close to a million Jews were forced from their ancestral homelands because of state sanctioned discrimination, denationalization and violence. Their story is missing from the mainstream Jewish narrative.

His book is based on his project, Sephardi Voices, an international human rights heritage project, which collects testimonies from the survivors of these communities. The digital archive consists of 600 oral history interviews in English, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, French, and Italian, as well as portraits, documents, and photographs chronicling the life stories of these resilient people finding strength in the face of terrible injustice.

Professor Green is a distinguished scholar of Jewish history and religion at the University of Miami, Florida, founding director of the Jewish Museum of Florida, and founder and executive director of Sephardi Voices. He has presented the ethnic cleansing of this population internationally at the United Nations, in legislative bodies (USA, Canada, Israel, UK), and academic institutions.

Henry Green is Professor of Religious Studies and the former director of Judaic and Sephardic Studies at the University of Miami, Florida. He is the founding director of MOSAIC: the Jewish Museum of Florida, and of Sephardi Voices, and the largest audio-visual digital archive of Arab Jews ethnically cleansed from North Africa and the Middle East. He is the author, with Richard Stursberg, of Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands (2021) as well as many other publications regarding the Sephardi/Mizrahi. 

He has served as a visiting Fellow at Oxford University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has given testimony to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in the United States and at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva as an advocate for the rights of those displaced.