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Iraqi Jews In Montreal
How They Got Here and How They Have Flourished By Zachary Rath For many years, Canada has been a second home for immigrants looking to build better lives for themselves […]
Iraq, Babylon, and Baghdad in Jewish History and Thought
by Steven Bayme, National Director, Contemporary Jewish Life Department at ajc.org The recent Iraq war has once again focused world attention on Mesopotamia (literally, “the land between two rivers”), evoking […]
The Iraqi Jewish Archive, as it became known, is both proud and pitiful.
By Alex Joffe To whom do antiquities belong? Are they the property of modern states, current proprietors of the real estate where they were created, however many centuries or millennia […]
The Iraqi Jews – The Oldest Diaspora, Now Safe in Israel
by Norman Berdichevsky (New English Review, February 2012) In the December issue of NER, I wrote the first article (on the Yemenites) of a planned 8 part series to examine […]
In Honor of Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands: Letter from a Forgotten Jew
By David Harris I am a forgotten Jew. My roots are nearly 2,600 years old, my ancestors made landmark contributions to world civilization, and my presence was felt from North […]
An AlQosh Man Struggles to Keep a Promise to an Old Friend
By Amer Hedow AlQosh, IRAQ – Abandoned since 1948 by native Iraqi Jews remains the tomb of the Jewish Prophet Nahum, a minor prophet in the Hebrew Bible. Nahum wrote […]
Baghdadi Jews in Early Shanghai
by Maisie J. Meyer Many Baghdadi Jews (the term “Baghdadi” in this context encompasses Arabic speaking Jews from the Middle East, Aden and Yemen, and non-Arabic speaking Jews from […]
Iraqi Jews said to have a proud, difficult history
by Sheri Shefa, Staff Reporter -CJN TORONTO — Iraqi Jews, the oldest continuous Diaspora in the world, lived under difficult circumstances throughout their 2,700-year presence in the region, but have […]
Celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Baghdad
by Yochi Dreazen The sound of the shofar rang out incongruously in Iraq as an eclectic bunch of Jews sat down to celebrate the Jewish New Year in a land […]
Dispossessed: Iraq’s 2,600-year-old Jewish community decimated in one decade.
How Iraq’s 2,600-year-old Jewish community was decimated in one decade. By: Edwin Black Baghdad, June 22, 2004. Just days before the Coalition Provisional Authority is scheduled to return power to […]
Changes in the Social Status of Urban Jewish Women in Iraq as the Nineteenth Century Turned
by: Dr. Shaul Sehayek, Tel-Aviv Translated from the Hebrew by: Dina Ripsman Eylon and Dalia Maishlish Forward [1] During the nineteenth century Arab countries underwent an awaking process, which […]
