Heritage
Iraqi-Jewish archive triggers ‘traumatic memories’
A battle is ongoing over a collection of Iraqi Jewish heirlooms, as few agree on where it should be based. by Dalia Hatuqa Baltimore, United States – A […]
Protagonists of ‘Remember Baghdad’ feel Jews have ‘unfinished business’ in Iraq
By Eliana Rudee/JNS When thinking of the words “refugee” and “Middle East,” many displaced groups come to mind. But few know that some of the original refugees of the region […]
Now-dispersed Iraqi Jewish community fights for access to its legacy
‘Why should someone’s diploma and grades be in a museum?’ With a stolen trove of historical documents slated for return to Baghdad, Jews from Iraq demand their personal effects back […]
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 […]
Iraqi Jews Speaking Up to Preserve Their Heritage
by Fiyaz Mughal Jewish history in Iraq has been documented as far back as 2,500 years to Babylonian Times and few know that Iraqi Jews played a role in the […]
Evidence of Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem unearthed in City of David
By Daniel K. Eisenbud “These findings depict the affluence and character of the Judean Kingdom and are mesmerizing proof of the city’s demise at the hands of the Babylonians.” During […]
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
Jews in Shanghai
by Steve Hochstadt I Jews in Colonial Shanghai One of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world, Shanghai in the late 19th and early 20th century was an […]
Books by Rabbi Shelomo Bekhor Hussein
Books by Rabbi Shelomo Bekhor Hussein Rabbi Hussein was a legal decisor, liturgical poet, journalist, translator, and printing house owner who was one of the outstanding Babylonian rabbis in the […]
Haggadah of Rabbi David Hai Einy
Haggadah of Rabbi David Hai Einy – Jerusalem, 1905 This Babylonian-rite Haggadah was published in Hebrew with Arabic and English translations by the ancestor of Ronald Einy, our past synagogue […]
Haftara of Tish’a Be’av Shaharit
Haftara of Tish’a Be’av Shaharit, with translation and commentary in Judeo-Arabic
Iraqi Haftarot Shemot and Bo
On Parashiyot Shemot and Bo each year, Iraqi Jews read a Haftara that is different from the custom of most of the rest of the Jewish community. These Haftarot are […]
