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Dispossessed: Iraq’s 2,600-year-old Jewish community decimated in one decade.

| 24/06/2004 | 0 Comments
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 […]

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Changes in the Social Status of Urban Jewish Women in Iraq as the Nineteenth Century Turned

| 10/12/2003 | 0 Comments
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 […]

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Preserving the Iraqi Jewish Archive

| 04/07/2003 | 0 Comments
Preserving the Iraqi Jewish Archive

Startling evidence of the once vibrant Jewish life in Iraq came to light in May 2003 — over 2,700 books and tens of thousands of documents were discovered in the […]

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Shanghai’s Messenger

| 03/07/1998 | 0 Comments
Shanghai’s Messenger

B’Nai Yisrael: The Jewish Community of Shanghai July 1998 Press Release REBIRTH OF SHANGHAI’S JEWISH COMMUNITY: OUR FIRST TORAH IN DECADES by Jodie Goldberg and Robin Gerofsky Kaptzan On June […]

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