Books
From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond”: A Memoir of an Iraqi Jew
“From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond”: A Memoir of an Iraqi Jew”. Amy Dane co-author of Dr. Jacob Shammash’s story of emigration from Baghdad in 1947, after the Farhud and […]
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 […]
Remembering Iraqi Jewish Refugee Children
by Orit Bashkin, Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. Life for Iraqi Jews in Israel was not easy, particularly for the youngest among them. Between […]
The Death of an Arab Jew
by Orit Bashkin [ Introduction from the book Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel ] In 1958, ‘Ezra Susu, a sixty-five-year-old disabled goldsmith and father of a disabled child, […]
It’s Easier to Serve Bagels than Baba Ganoush:
Chelsie May’s M.A. Thesis at Brandeis: Iraqi Jewish Women Articulate an Arab Jewish Subjectivity
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 […]
