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The Nazi-inspired Pogrom That Triggered Iraqi Jews’ Escape to Israel

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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? […]

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Nazi Germany and the Farhud in Iraq

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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 […]

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The Good Old Days For Jews in Baghdad

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The Good Old Days For Jews in Baghdad

excerpt from the film Remember Baghdad

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Protagonists of ‘Remember Baghdad’ feel Jews have ‘unfinished business’ in Iraq

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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 […]

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Now-dispersed Iraqi Jewish community fights for access to its legacy

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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 With a stolen trove of historical documents slated for return to Baghdad, Jews from Iraq demand their personal effects back […]

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The Death of an Arab Jew

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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, […]

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Iraq and Roll: The Jewish Sounds of Bollywood

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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 […]

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Changes in the Social Status of Urban Jewish Women in Iraq as the Nineteenth Century Turned

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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 […]

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