Yalla. Arab-Jewish Encounters

Jewish Museum Munich, Germany

April 29, 2026 – February 28, 2027

https://www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de

The history of Jews in North Africa and Western Asia is characterized by the close cultural proximity to a diverse Arabic environment and by mutual enrichment, just as much as by fractures, exclusion, and violence. It tells of neighbourly relations and exchanges, of common languages, musical traditions and ways of thinking. In the course of the 20th century, however, this divided past was increasingly idealized or suppressed ideologically. It has only been through the growing self-confidence of the Mizrahim—Jews from Arab-influenced cultural and linguistic regions in present-day Israel—that an awareness of this past has grown once again in the public consciousness.