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Readings about the Jews of Baghdad
Alexander, Ari. The Jews of Baghdad and Zionism: 1920 – 1948. Diss. University of Oxford, Magdalen College, 2004 Amir, Eli. The Dove Flyer. London: Halban, 2010. Barr, James. A Line […]
Remember Baghdad – a film
On the hundredth anniversary of the British invasion in 1917, Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed from a completely new […]
Victimized Again: The Jews of Arab States and the June 1967 War
Much has been written about the historical marginalization of the 900,000 Jews expelled from Arab states in the wake of the 1948 War. Few know that the June 1967 War […]
Remembering the last Jews of Iraq
By Joe Shute David Dangoor still keeps what he calls a “mental suitcase”, packed full of memory and longing for a homeland he left more than half a century ago. […]
The Farhoud Remembered
Seventy-six years after the mass massacre of the Baghdad Jews, in which the then-leader of the Palestinian Arabs, Hajj Amin Husseini, was deeply involved, his heirs to the Palestinian leadership […]
