Interview Archive (videos)

This "Interview Archive" houses additional interviews of Karaite Jews who immigrated to the United States, either significantly longer versions of videos that appear elsewhere on the "Out of Egypt" exhibit or ones not found elsewhere on this website. Although most of these videos are of individuals who relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, some are interviews with Karaite Jews who immigrated to other places in the continental United States, such as Chicago and Boston. (Unless noted otherwise, those interviewed resettled in the San Francisco Bay Area.) We have included interviews of those who settled outside of San Francisco not only because these immigrants also arrived in the U.S. during the same era (1950s-1970s), but also because their life experiences, both in Egypt and their new country, the United States, are quite similar to those of the Karaite Jews who relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area.