Iraq
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 With a stolen trove of historical documents slated for return to Baghdad, Jews from Iraq demand their personal effects back […]
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 […]
Rekindling a Heritage of Peaceful Coexistence
Why the Legacy of One of the Great Jewish Modernizers of Alexandria Bears Remembering by Joseph Braude* Ask a young Egyptian what “Smouha” means and he will likely tell […]
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. […]
US State Department Decision To Return Jewish Artifacts to Iraq is Bad Idea
The Zionist Organization of America Opposes the Tillerson/State Department Decision to “Return” to Iraq the Jewish Artifacts that Iraq Stole from Iraq’s Dispossessed Jewish Community. The Tillerson State Department’s statement […]
Manhattan’s Iraqi-Jewish owned single-vine winery
By David Klein Latif Jiji cited his Judaism and celebration of Passover as the inspiration for his winemaking. Wine. (photo credit: INGIMAGE) Latif Jiji looks over this year’s crop at […]
Help Preserve Judaeo-Arabic
University of Haifa Mother Tongue Project aimed at preserving pieces of our linguistic heritage. The phenomenon of language death is not unique to the Jewish people. The loss of languages […]
The Zionist Underground in Iraq
Emil Murad The following article is the personal testimony of an Iraqi Jew regarding the last days of his community and their preparations for emigration to Israel. It is an […]
Iraqi Jews – Preserving a Rich Heritage
by Sharon Kanon (WZPS) It is hard to imagine what it must have been like to take a stroll down a street in Baghdad, or sit on the shores of […]
