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Jewish Role in Iraqi Music
by Yeheskel Kojaman The Iraqi Jewish community settled in Iraq long before the Arabs occupied the country. Jews mastered the Arabic language quickly, and participated in all fields of life. […]
Tel Aviv: Israel’s Iraqi Jews Remember Their Past
by Hannah Benson An exhibit at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, displays what life was like in the “transit camps” for Israel’s Iraqi-Jewish immigrants after being […]
Leaving Iraq
interview with Asad Muallim A plane filled with Iraqi Jews photographed on arrival at Lod Airport in early 1951 (Credit: Teddy Brauner/GPO) B’nai Brith Canada spoke with our member, Asad […]
Paradise Lost – An Iraqi Jewish Story
interview with Tamara Ruben by ReformJudaism.org editor Aron Hirt-Manheimer. Tamara Ruben, the education director of Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, New Jersey, was born in Iraq in June 1950, only […]
In Israel, Iraqi Jews Reflect on Baghdad Heritage
By JAMES GLANZ and IRIT PAZNER GARSHOWITZ Photo The reconstructed alleys of the Jewish quarter of Baghdad at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, outside Tel Aviv. […]
The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews
At first, the Jews deluded themselves that the hardship would pass; loyal citizens, the community had dwelled in Iraq for 2,600 years. Bent on destroying Israel, and gripped by vicious […]
The vanished Iraqi Jews
by Joseph Samuels I was born in “Taht El Takia” in the Jewish quarter of the old city of Baghdad in December of 1930. My mother tongue is Arabic. My […]
Iraq’s Last Jews Need Help
by Tina Ramirez The violent persecution and near genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis and Christians have made headlines around the world. Less well-known is the story of Iraqi Jews, who face […]
Custody battle over rare Iraqi-Jewish historical documents
by Tom Tugend | On May 6, 2003, 16 American soldiers of a special unit searching for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction entered the flooded basement of Saddam […]
1908: The Iraqi Jew Who Would Lead Singapore Is Born
Peeved with British criticism of Singapore as a ‘pestilential and immoral cesspool’, David Marshall would become the Asian nation’s first chief minister. by David B. Green Mar 12, 2015 […]
