Tag: Baghdadi
Guest Lecture – Prof J Sassoon
Prof Joseph Sassoon will be discussing his latest book, “The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of a Dynasty” (Pantheon, October 22) The influential merchants of the nineteenth […]
From Baghdad To Kokomo
Memoir Of A Young Man’s Odyssey To America by Albert Kudsizadeh A compelling account of growing up during the mid-twentieth century in the two oldest and once vibrant Jewish communities […]
In Exile, Iraqi Jews Are Desperate To Reclaim Their Artifacts
by Talia Zax Shortly after the Iraqi Jewish Archive was found, Doris Hamburg, then director of preservation programs at the National Archives, and Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, then the National Archives’ […]
The Last Relics Of Iraq’s Jewish Past Are In America. Should They Be Returned?
by Talya Zax On a leafy parkway in the Jamaica section of Queens, there is a house that is no longer a house. It’s one of New York’s two Iraqi […]
The Iraqi Jewish Archive Could Reshape Foreign Policy. But Its Future Is Uncertain
by: Talya Zax Iraqi Jews are sure the Iraqi Jewish Archive belongs to them, and they’re determined to get it back. Meanwhile, Iraq is holding firm to the claim […]
The Iraqi Jewish Archive is stolen property that should go back to its original owners
By Carole Basri and David Dangoor, In the preamble to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, it says that “damage […]
With Jews largely gone from Iraq, memories survive in Israel
By Maher Chmaytelli, Jeffrey Heller and Stephen Farrell BAGHDAD/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Behind the high concrete walls of Baghdad’s Jewish cemetery, Violette Saul lies at rest under a weathered […]
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 […]
The Baghdadi Jewish Dish that was Created in Mumbai and Kolkata
the taste was sour and sweet, a smooth, compelling aroma filled my mouth and nose, the texture was silky, a depth in it. i’d never tasted a chicken dish […]
Iraqi-Jewish archive triggers ‘traumatic memories’
A battle is ongoing over a collection of Iraqi Jewish heirlooms, as few agree on where it should be based. by Dalia Hatuqa Baltimore, United States – A […]
The Nazi-inspired Pogrom That Triggered Iraqi Jews’ Escape to Israel
Beit Hatfutsot and Dor Saar-Man Sure the Nazi influence was noxious, but how could such an atrocity have occurred in a country where Jews had lived in peace for centuries? […]
