Iraq
The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews
At first, the Jews deluded themselves that the hardship would pass; loyal citizens, the community had dwelled in Iraq for 2,600 years. Bent on destroying Israel, and gripped by vicious […]
The vanished Iraqi Jews
by Joseph Samuels I was born in “Taht El Takia” in the Jewish quarter of the old city of Baghdad in December of 1930. My mother tongue is Arabic. My […]
Iraq’s Last Jews Need Help
by Tina Ramirez The violent persecution and near genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis and Christians have made headlines around the world. Less well-known is the story of Iraqi Jews, who face […]
Custody battle over rare Iraqi-Jewish historical documents
by Tom Tugend | On May 6, 2003, 16 American soldiers of a special unit searching for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction entered the flooded basement of Saddam […]
1908: The Iraqi Jew Who Would Lead Singapore Is Born
Peeved with British criticism of Singapore as a ‘pestilential and immoral cesspool’, David Marshall would become the Asian nation’s first chief minister. by David B. Green Mar 12, 2015 […]
The Jewish master of Arabic
Most revered for his Arabic to English translation of the Koran, Nessim Joseph Dawood was a revolutionary in introducing the West to Arab literature and culture – but his life […]
Long Island Jews Unite To Keep Artifacts Seized From Saddam Hussein’s Police
Treasures, Including Torahs, Dating 500 Years Supposed To Be Returned To Iraq March 17, 2014 6:36 PM These artifacts were seized by the U.S. in the headquarters of Saddam Hussein’s […]
Open letter to the Presbyterian Church USA from an Iraqi Jew
by Joe Samuels Some of your members, under the banner of human rights, have demonized one country. According to them, the one country that destabilizes the Middle East and creates […]
Montreal’s Iraqi-Jewish Community Pieces Together Fragments of its History
by Leah Balass Lisette Shashoua looks at her elementary school diploma and family photos from when she lived in Iraq. Lisette Shashoua looks at her elementary school diploma and family […]
Return of Jewish artifacts to Iraq sparks outrage
By Dan Pine Who is the rightful owner of a stunning collection of Iraqi Judaica known as the Iraqi Jewish Archives: the descendants of that country’s exiled Jewish community now […]
Don’t Return the Iraqi Jewish Archive
by Joe Samuels My Arabic name is Yusuf Sasson Shumail. I was born in Taht Al Takia, in the old city of Baghdad, Iraq on December 31,1930. In 1941, I […]
My escape from Iraq
by Joe Samuels A video surfaced in January of Muktadar Al Sader, the Shiite militia leader, pleading for Iraqi Jews to return to help rebuild their homeland. Right. Imagine me, […]
