Personal History
Remember Baghdad coming to TJFF
REMEMBER BAGHDAD (feature) The attitude used to be “Jews, Muslims, Christians, we were all Iraqis.” For over 2500 years, Jews were an integral community in modern Iraq. However, over the […]
Tea with Iraqi Jews
Sol Basha A story-telling session over Iraqi tea with members of the last community of Jews to have lived in Baghdad peacefully. Descriptions of domestic spaces, accounts of escape, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
I Left Iraq but Iraq Never Left Me
Jewish Exiles Finally Begin to Tell Their Story Sephardi Voices, an Israeli audiovisual documentary project, aims to retell the story of Jewish civilization to include ‘the richness of Sephardi Jews’ […]
Shavu‘ot in Baghdad: 75th anniversary of the Farhud
by Joe Samulels The festival of Shavu‘ot commemorates the time when the Jews received the Torah at Mount Sinai. It also marks the beginning of a new agricultural season, Hag […]
Finding my roots in Tel Aviv
Raised in England by Iraqi Jewish parents, Rachel Shabi ‘blanded out’ her family heritage to fit in with her peers. Years later, she has finally learned to embrace her parents’ […]
