Israeli textbooks reduced Mizrahi Jewish history to nine pages out of four hundred

Evidence

The artist Meir Gal represented this reality in a piece titled “Nine out of Four Hundred”: a photograph in which he holds up the nine pages devoted to the history of Mizrahi Jews in a textbook by Shmuel Kirshenbaum, illustrating the prevalent attitude in Israel culture toward Mizrahi Jews as a group without a history, as well as the dominant conception of Jewish history as Ashkenazi history. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 661

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking concrete detail: an artist holding up the nine pages devoted to Mizrahi history in a four-hundred-page textbook.