Personal History
Tel Aviv: Israel’s Iraqi Jews Remember Their Past
by Hannah Benson An exhibit at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, displays what life was like in the “transit camps” for Israel’s Iraqi-Jewish immigrants after being […]
Leaving Iraq
interview with Asad Muallim A plane filled with Iraqi Jews photographed on arrival at Lod Airport in early 1951 (Credit: Teddy Brauner/GPO) B’nai Brith Canada spoke with our member, Asad […]
Paradise Lost – An Iraqi Jewish Story
interview with Tamara Ruben by ReformJudaism.org editor Aron Hirt-Manheimer. Tamara Ruben, the education director of Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, New Jersey, was born in Iraq in June 1950, only […]
In Israel, Iraqi Jews Reflect on Baghdad Heritage
By JAMES GLANZ and IRIT PAZNER GARSHOWITZ Photo The reconstructed alleys of the Jewish quarter of Baghdad at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, outside Tel Aviv. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Iraqi Jews said to have a proud, difficult history
by Sheri Shefa, Staff Reporter -CJN TORONTO — Iraqi Jews, the oldest continuous Diaspora in the world, lived under difficult circumstances throughout their 2,700-year presence in the region, but have […]
THE JEWS OF IRAQ
By Naeim Giladi I wrote this article for the same reason I wrote my book: to tell the American people, and especially American Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands did […]
