With thanks: Lisette
Salim Fattal was the head of Israel's Arabic TV service in the 1960s and made a series about the Jews of Iraq. This programme (Hebrew and Arabic) has some fascinating scenes of a service in the Meir Tweg synagogue (the last working synagogue in Baghdad). Fattal interviewed 100 Jews about their experiences in the Farhud, the 1941 massacre. Even if you do not understand the language, the film is worth seeing for its rare footage of the Mufti of Jerusalem meeting Hitler.
fascinating film. As to the mufti Husseini, the top Palestinian Arab leader of the time, we see him in several parts of the film. He is agitating a mob, presumably in Baghdad, he is with German officers, he reviews the Bosnian Muslim SS division --which he had helped to recruit-- the Handschar [khanjar], and he comes to meet hitler.
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ReplyDeleteנשף ערבי־נאצי בברלין — ha-Tsofeh (Tel Aviv - הצפה, 3 August 1938.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/hzh/1938/08/03/01/article/42?&
נשף ערבי־נאצי בברלין. לונדון (פאלקור—. (
סופרו הברלני של "דיילי טלגראף" מודיע כי
בקלוב הערבי בברלין התקיים נשף ארצישראלי,
שבו השתתפו מלבד העסקנים הערביים, השוהים עתה בברלין, גם כמה מראשי המפלגה הנאצית. בנאומיהם שנשאו בנשף דובר על הסולידאריות בין הגרמנים והערבים, המכוונה נגד היהודים ונגד אנגליה.
Arab-Nazi ball in Berlin. London (Palcor.) The Berlin writer of the "Daily Telegraph" announces that a Palestine ball was held at the Arab club in Berlin, in which, in addition to the Arab activists, who are now staying in Berlin, some of the leaders of the Nazi party also participated. In their speeches at the ball, they spoke of the solidarity between the Germans and the Arabs, directed against the Jews and against England.