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{{Short description|Iraqi-born Israeli journalist}}
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| name = Linda Menuhin
| name = Linda Menuhin
| native_name = ليندا عبد العزيز
| native_name_lang = ar
| other_names = Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin, Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz, Linda Menuhin Abdul–Aziz, Linda Abu Aziz Menuhin
| other_names = Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin, Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz, Linda Menuhin Abdul–Aziz, Linda Abu Aziz Menuhin
| birth_name = Linda Abdul Aziz
| birth_name = Linda Abdul Aziz
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[[File:Shadow in Baghdad - English poster.jpg|thumb|Poster for 2013 Israeli documentary film ''[[Shadow in Baghdad]]'']]
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'''Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin''' (born 1950) is an Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger who has written for Arab news.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Simhon |first=Kobi Ben |date=February 27, 2014 |title=לינדה מנוחין משמיעה את קולם של הפליטים היהודים שנמלטו ממדינות ערב |language=he |trans-title=Linda Menuhin voices the voices of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries |work=הארץ (Haaretz) |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2014-02-27/ty-article/.premium/0000017f-e4f9-d804-ad7f-f5fb2a7a0000 |url-access=limited |access-date=2022-06-01}}</ref> Menuhin was a refugee to Israel in the 1970s and has been nicknamed, the "Anne Frank of Iraq".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Lela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQjzAAAAQBAJ |title=Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel Through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner |date=2012 |publisher=Encounter Books |isbn=978-1-59403-639-2 |pages=185 |language=en}}</ref> She previously served as head of the Middle East desk and commentator on Arab affairs on Arabic television [[Channel 1 (Israel)|channel 1]].<ref name=":0" /> She was the subject of the 2013 Israeli documentary film ''[[Shadow in Baghdad]]'', directed by [[Duki Dror]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Ethan |last2= |date=2014-01-29 |title=Shadow in Baghdad |url=https://www.independent.com/2014/01/29/shadow-baghdad/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref>
'''Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin''' (born 1950; {{Langx|ar|ليندا عبد العزيز}}, {{Langx|he|לינדה מנוחין}}) is an Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger who has written for Arab news.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Simhon |first=Kobi Ben |date=February 27, 2014 |title=לינדה מנוחין משמיעה את קולם של הפליטים היהודים שנמלטו ממדינות ערב |language=he |trans-title=Linda Menuhin voices the voices of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries |work=הארץ (Haaretz) |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2014-02-27/ty-article/.premium/0000017f-e4f9-d804-ad7f-f5fb2a7a0000 |url-access=limited |access-date=2022-06-01}}</ref> Menuhin was a refugee to Israel in the 1970s and has been nicknamed, the "Anne Frank of Iraq".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Lela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQjzAAAAQBAJ |title=Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel Through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner |date=2012 |publisher=Encounter Books |isbn=978-1-59403-639-2 |pages=185 |language=en}}</ref> She previously served as head of the Middle East desk and commentator on Arab affairs on Arabic television [[Channel 1 (Israel)|channel 1]].<ref name=":0" /> She was the subject of the 2013 Israeli documentary film ''[[Shadow in Baghdad]]'', directed by [[Duki Dror]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Ethan |last2= |date=2014-01-29 |title=Shadow in Baghdad |url=https://www.independent.com/2014/01/29/shadow-baghdad/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Menuhin was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq into an [[Arab Jews|Arab Jewish]] family.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2014-04-15 |title="Arab," "Jew," and Identity in Israel – By Samuel Thrope |url=https://themarginaliareview.com/arab-jew-and-identity-in-israel-by-samuel-thrope/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=The Marginalia Review of Books |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Julius |first=Lyn |date=October 18, 2013 |title=Baghdad casts a giant shadow |url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/baghdad-casts-a-giant-shadow/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=Times of Israel |language=en-US}}</ref> At the age of 21, she fled to Israel via [[Pahlavi Iran]] with her brother. A few months later her mother and sister did the same route, and the family left behind her father.<ref name=":1" /> In 1972 her father Yaakub Abdul Aziz, a prominent lawyer in Iraq, was abducted by government agents and was never heard of again.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> In the following years in Iraq, [[Saddam Hussein]] was put into power and by then many of the Baghdadi Jews had fled.
Menuhin was born in 1950 in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]] into an [[Arab Jews|Arab Jewish]] family.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2014-04-15 |title="Arab," "Jew," and Identity in Israel – By Samuel Thrope |url=https://themarginaliareview.com/arab-jew-and-identity-in-israel-by-samuel-thrope/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=The Marginalia Review of Books |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Julius |first=Lyn |date=October 18, 2013 |title=Baghdad casts a giant shadow |url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/baghdad-casts-a-giant-shadow/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=Times of Israel |language=en-US}}</ref> After the [[Six-Day War]] in 1967, the Jews of Baghdad became targets.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Garaev |first=Polina |date=November 5, 2017 |title=How one woman's tragic quest opened the door for Iraqi-Israeli reconciliation |url=https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/159485-171105-the-shadow-of-baghdad-that-traces-the-journey-of-iraqi-israeli-reconciliation |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=i24NEWS |language=en}}</ref> At the age of 21, she fled to Israel via [[Pahlavi Iran]] with her brother. A few months later her mother and sister did the same route, leaving her father behind.<ref name=":1" /> When she first arrived in Israel in 1971, there was a struggle for people to understand the history of Jews in Iraq and she has expressed feeling like, "there was no room for the Arab culture in Israel" during that time.<ref name=":3" />


In 1972 her father, Yaakub Abdul Aziz, a prominent lawyer in Iraq, was abducted by government agents and was never heard of again.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> In the following years in Iraq, [[Saddam Hussein]] was put into power, by which point many of Baghdad's Jews had fled, were missing, or had been killed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Freund |first=Devorah |date=2019-04-16 |title=In Search of My Father // It's been 49 years since Linda Menuhin fled Baghdad, leaving behind her father, a celebrated lawyer. It was only after Saddam Hussein’s regime was finally toppled that she could begin searching for him, and learn of his fate. She now lives in Har Adar, near Jerusalem. This is her story. |url=https://www.amimagazine.org/2019/04/16/in-search-of-my-father/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=Ami Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
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The film ''Shadow in Baghdad'' is about Menuhin's family and trying to answer some of the unsolved mysteries around her father’s disappearance.<ref name=":1" />


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The film ''Shadow in Baghdad'' is about Menuhin's family and trying to answer some of the unsolved mysteries around her father’s disappearance and the disappearance of Baghdad's Jewish population.<ref name=":1" />
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In 1981, Menuhin started working for Arabic television on channel 1 (Israel), first as a magazine editor and later as head of the Middle East desk.<ref name=":0" /> She later worked as a consultant with the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] for the Arabic digital media.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenfeld-Hadad |first=Merav |date=2022-06-01 |title=Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz: How One Woman's Tragic Quest Opened the Door for Iraqi-Israeli Reconciliation |url=https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/events/middle-eastern-judaism-and-islam-webinar-1 |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=The Woolf Institute |language=en}}</ref>

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In 1981, Menuhin started working for Arabic television on Channel 1 (Israel), first as a magazine editor and later as head of the Middle East desk.<ref name=":0" /> She later worked as a consultant with the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] for the Arabic digital media.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenfeld-Hadad |first=Merav |date=2022-06-01 |title=Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz: How One Woman's Tragic Quest Opened the Door for Iraqi-Israeli Reconciliation |url=https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/events/middle-eastern-judaism-and-islam-webinar-1 |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=The Woolf Institute |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Shamir |first=Jonathan |date=January 30, 2021 |title=Pursuing Normalization With Iraq, Israeli Digital Diplomacy Plays the Heritage Card |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-01-30/ty-article/.premium/israel-pursuing-normalization-iraq-digital-diplomacy/0000017f-f133-df98-a5ff-f3bf29fe0000 |access-date=2022-06-01}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Baghdadi Jews]]
* [[History of the Jews in Iraq]]


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.nli.org.il/en/audio/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL005278912/NLI Interview with Linda Menuhin (2006)], the [[National Library of Israel]]


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Latest revision as of 17:10, 3 November 2024

Linda Menuhin
ليندا عبد العزيز
Born
Linda Abdul Aziz

1950 (age 73–74)
Baghdad, Iraq
Other namesLinda Abdul Aziz Menuhin, Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz, Linda Menuhin Abdul–Aziz, Linda Abu Aziz Menuhin
Occupation(s)Journalist, editor, blogger
FatherYaakub Abdul Aziz
Poster for 2013 Israeli documentary film Shadow in Baghdad

Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin (born 1950; Arabic: ليندا عبد العزيز, Hebrew: לינדה מנוחין) is an Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger who has written for Arab news.[1] Menuhin was a refugee to Israel in the 1970s and has been nicknamed, the "Anne Frank of Iraq".[2] She previously served as head of the Middle East desk and commentator on Arab affairs on Arabic television channel 1.[1] She was the subject of the 2013 Israeli documentary film Shadow in Baghdad, directed by Duki Dror.[3]

Biography

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Menuhin was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq into an Arab Jewish family.[4][5] After the Six-Day War in 1967, the Jews of Baghdad became targets.[6] At the age of 21, she fled to Israel via Pahlavi Iran with her brother. A few months later her mother and sister did the same route, leaving her father behind.[5] When she first arrived in Israel in 1971, there was a struggle for people to understand the history of Jews in Iraq and she has expressed feeling like, "there was no room for the Arab culture in Israel" during that time.[6]

In 1972 her father, Yaakub Abdul Aziz, a prominent lawyer in Iraq, was abducted by government agents and was never heard of again.[4][5] In the following years in Iraq, Saddam Hussein was put into power, by which point many of Baghdad's Jews had fled, were missing, or had been killed.[7]

The film Shadow in Baghdad is about Menuhin's family and trying to answer some of the unsolved mysteries around her father’s disappearance and the disappearance of Baghdad's Jewish population.[5]

In 1981, Menuhin started working for Arabic television on Channel 1 (Israel), first as a magazine editor and later as head of the Middle East desk.[1] She later worked as a consultant with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Arabic digital media.[8][9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Simhon, Kobi Ben (February 27, 2014). "לינדה מנוחין משמיעה את קולם של הפליטים היהודים שנמלטו ממדינות ערב" [Linda Menuhin voices the voices of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries]. הארץ (Haaretz) (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  2. ^ Gilbert, Lela (2012). Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel Through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner. Encounter Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-59403-639-2.
  3. ^ Stewart, Ethan (2014-01-29). "Shadow in Baghdad". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  4. ^ a b ""Arab," "Jew," and Identity in Israel – By Samuel Thrope". The Marginalia Review of Books. 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  5. ^ a b c d Julius, Lyn (October 18, 2013). "Baghdad casts a giant shadow". Times of Israel. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  6. ^ a b Garaev, Polina (November 5, 2017). "How one woman's tragic quest opened the door for Iraqi-Israeli reconciliation". i24NEWS. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  7. ^ Freund, Devorah (2019-04-16). "In Search of My Father // It's been 49 years since Linda Menuhin fled Baghdad, leaving behind her father, a celebrated lawyer. It was only after Saddam Hussein's regime was finally toppled that she could begin searching for him, and learn of his fate. She now lives in Har Adar, near Jerusalem. This is her story". Ami Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  8. ^ Rosenfeld-Hadad, Merav (2022-06-01). "Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz: How One Woman's Tragic Quest Opened the Door for Iraqi-Israeli Reconciliation". The Woolf Institute. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  9. ^ Shamir, Jonathan (January 30, 2021). "Pursuing Normalization With Iraq, Israeli Digital Diplomacy Plays the Heritage Card". Haaretz. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
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