Tag: Baghdadi
Nazi Germany and the Farhud in Iraq
By Dor Saar-Man The most traumatic event in the collective memory of Iraqi Jews — the Farhud — took place during Shavuot 1941. During these violent riots in Baghdad thousands […]
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 […]
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 With a stolen trove of historical documents slated for return to Baghdad, Jews from Iraq demand their personal effects back […]
The Death of an Arab Jew
by Orit Bashkin [ Introduction from the book Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel ] In 1958, ‘Ezra Susu, a sixty-five-year-old disabled goldsmith and father of a disabled child, […]
Iraq and Roll: The Jewish Sounds of Bollywood
In the 1930s, Mumbai actually supported a Hebrew record label. By naresh fernandes [A version of this piece first appeared in Time Out Mumbai.] The dulcet ring of the oud […]
Changes in the Social Status of Urban Jewish Women in Iraq as the Nineteenth Century Turned
by: Dr. Shaul Sehayek, Tel-Aviv Translated from the Hebrew by: Dina Ripsman Eylon and Dalia Maishlish Forward [1] During the nineteenth century Arab countries underwent an awaking process, which […]
