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The story of the modern Jewish exodus from Arab lands, this book investigates the Jewish presence in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, which preceded the rise of Islam by more than 1000 years. It shows how, by 1976, this ancient diaspora had virtually disappeared: only about 20,000 remain, mainly in North Africa. Of these refugees, some 20,000 opted for the Americas and other western countiries; the majority of the remainder migrated to Israel where their progeny today comprise 40 per cent of the population.