
	Where results make sense

Topic: History of the Jews in Iraq

	History of the Jews in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All non-believers—Magi, Jews, and Christians—were compelled by Al-Mutawakkil to wear a badge; their places of worship were confiscated and turned into mosques; they were excluded from public offices, and compelled to pay to the calif a tax of one-tenth of the value of their houses.
		Iraq's first minister of finance, Yehezkel Sasson, was a Jew, and Jews were important in developing the judicial and postal systems.
		In addition to continuing arrests and the dismissal of Jews from their jobs, this exodus was encouraged by a series of bombings starting in April 1950 that resulted in a number of injuries and a few deaths.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iraq (5334 words)

	Religions of Iran: A brief history of Iranian Jews (Page 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 458 BC, the Jew Ezra is appointed the deputy of Judah.
		Jews having had excellent relations with the Parthians were suspected to be collaborators with the deposed dynasty and their movement was restricted.
		The later massive repression of the Jews under Yazdgird II, Peroz and Kavad was a result of political actions by such messianic groups, who anticipated the imminent arrival of a new Messiah on the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.
	www.iranchamber.com /religions/history_of_iranian_jews1.php (2447 words)

	[No title]
		The irony of the history of the Jews in Iraq is that more than millennia after the “journey” of their ancestor Abraham, that "path" was reversed by the multitude of Abraham's descendants from Samaria and Jerusalem who were expelled to the plains of Mesopotamia.
		The irony was that Jews were considered by all segments of the population to belong to the elite of Iraqi society, both in education and culture as well as economically.
		For decades, the Jews of Iraq were able to leave the country if they wished to do so, but after Kassem's assassination and towards the end of the Ba’ath regime in 1963, the Jews were prevented from leaving the country.
	www.samba.co.il /iraqijews/history.doc (4570 words)

	A History of the Jews, a list of expulsions for 2000 years
		This notorious allegation that Jews murder non-Jews, especially Christians, in order to obtain blood for the Passover or other rituals is a complex of deliberate lies, trumped up accusations, and popular beliefs about the murder-lust of the Jews and their blood-thirstiness, based on the conception that Jews hate Christianity and mankind in general.
		Thus the Jews dispensed with the reincarnation rites of the pagans.
		With the shouts of "death" to the Jews still ringing in his ears from the Dreyfus Trial, Herzl became convinced that the only solution was the mass exodus of the Jews from their present places of residence to a territory of their own...
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/expulsions.html (4920 words)

	The Jews of Iraq
		Although Jews, like other minorities in what became Iraq, experienced periods of oppression and discrimination depending on the rulers of the period, their general trajectory over two and one-half millennia was upward.
		Zionist conquests in Palestine, particularly the massacre of Palestinians in the village of Deir Yassin, emboldened the anti-British movement in Iraq.
		In the case of Iraq, both methods were used: uneducated Jews were told of a Messianic Israel in which the blind see, the lame walk, and onions grow as big as melons; educated Jews had bombs thrown at them.
	www.jewsagainstzionism.com /zionism/impact/iraqijews.cfm (7467 words)

	Jews from Baghdad, Iraq - Escape in 1970
		Those Jews that remained in Baghdad after the mass exodus of 1950-51 were dehumanized, threatened, and abused both physically and emotionally during certain periods of the Iraq’s recent history.
		Iraq is one of the most ancient lands mentioned in the Old Testament, as it was the birthplace of our first patriarch and the first monotheistic religion.
		This was the beginning of one of the most glorious periods in the history of the Jews of Iraq.
	thesite2000.virtualave.net /iraqijews/herdoon.html (11069 words)

	Yehud : Education : History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Asian Jews - History of the Jews in Asian and Asian Kosher hospitality.
		Harry Leichter's Jews of Asia - Includes history of Jews of Japan, Jews of India, Jews of Tahiti, Kehillat Beijing Sephardic Jews, Jews of Thailand, Jews of Singapore Asia and Oceania Jews of Hong Kong, Jews of the Philippines, Jews of South Korea, Jews in Taipei and Taiwan.
		Jews of the Sudan - History of the Jewish Community of the Sudan in the African Interior.
	www.yehud.com /Education/History (1690 words)

	A brief history of the Iraqi Jewish Community in the United States
		Martial law was declared in Iraq, and this marked the beginning of a new chapter in the life of the Jewish community.
		In 1948, and with the instigation of the Iraqi Embassy in Teheran, the Iranian authorities were arranging to have the Iraqi Jews residing in Iran, be expelled to Iraq** and their assets confiscated.
		Though the ancient Babylonian Jewish community of Iraq has almost completely disappeared from its country of origin, probably for ever (only 76 Jews are known to be currently living in Iraq), those of its former members who emigrated to Israel and to the west have brought original Babylonian Jewish culture to their new settlements.
	www.babylonjewry.org.il /new/english/mshohet.htm (3503 words)

	Sephardim and their History
		Most historians feel Jews came to the Iberian peninsula with the Roman Legions, possibly as merchants and purveyors with a second wave of arrivals after the destruction of the second temple in 70 C.E.
		Although history has been re-written to transform el Cid into an idealized hero fighting to restore Christianity, he was in fact a particularly able mercenary (like many others in his day) who fought at times for the Christians and other times for the Moors and ended carving out for himself a personal kingdom in Valencia.
		Jews were massacred in the thousands by religious fanatics whipped up by travelling self flagellating Catholic fanatics although this occurred less in Spain than in France and other parts of Europe.
	www.orthohelp.com /geneal/SEPH_who.htm (2213 words)

	Iraqi Jews - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The aim of iraqijews.org is to perpetuate the history, heritage, culture and traditions of the Babylonian Jewry.
		Babylon, the cradle of civilisation, was also the birthplace of the Hebrews, long before the People of Israel became a nation and appeared on the stage of history.
		The history of the Jews of Iraq began, in fact, with the exile of the Jews of Palestine by the Assyrians and, later, the Babylonians.
	www.iraqijews.org (248 words)

	History of IRAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In fact, the Jews of Iraq existed in Mesapotamia prior to the move of Arabs from the Jazeera to Mesapotamia.
		It seems that it is maintained by Zionist Iraqi Jews who all they care about is celebrating reunions in Baghdad, voting in corrupt elections and working to confiscate their Iraqi properties back (most probably by force) from the time when they left IRAQ in the 1950s.
		In brief, Iraq was not a favorable environment for the emergence of the nationalist idea as was the case in Syria and Egypt.
	historyofiraq.blogspot.com (12832 words)

	BRILL
		The present volume is of importance to anyone interested in mediaeval history (Jewish and Arab); the history of a number of countries: Iraq, Iran, North Africa, Egypt, Sicily (under Islam); the history of the mediaeval economy.
		Moshe Gil, Ph.D. (1970) in Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University.
		Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005).
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=17968 (538 words)

	Iraqi Jews: A History of Mass Exodus - Word Power
		The Jews of Iraq constituted one of the oldest and most deeply rooted Jewish communities in the world.
		The sad sequence of events that finally led to the mass exodus of Jews in the 1950s was marked by dishonesty on all sides.
		An honest, impartial and well-documented account of a formerly well-integrated and vibrant community, Iraqi Jews: A History is a landmark in the political and social history of the Middle East.
	www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/0863565042 (482 words)

	JewsIraq
		Report tells story of Arab abuses against Jews in 1948
		Iraqi Jews that left during the 1960's and 1970's
		Iraq's only rabbi the glue that keeps tiny Jewish community together
	www.haruth.com /JewsIraq.html (48 words)

	The Family from Iraq
		Since the family on their paternal side are Iraqi by origin, I have included this page about their side and links to history of the Jews in Iraq.
		After the State of Israel was declared, there was a mass exodus of Iraqi Jews to Israel.
		Below are the only pictures in my possession of the Shaharabani, Shemesh and Segal family taken 20 to 30 years ago as I lost touch with the family after our divorce.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/catskop/iraq/Iraq.html (466 words)

	A Nostalgic Trip ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Nostalgic Trip into the History of the Jews of Iraq.
		This is a free translation of the well-known History of the Jews of Iraq by Yusuf Ghanimah with many illustrations.
		In 1949 there was another wave of hangings in Iraq.
	www.dangoor.com /71page39.html (546 words)

	Babylonian Jewry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Journal for Research in the History and Culture of Babylonian Jewry, No.2, Spring 1998
		Zvi Yehuda On the History of the Jews of Iraq in the 18th Century: A Blood Libel of Jews Against Christians in Basra
		Moshe Piamenta Interpretation of the Syntax in the Arabic Spoken by the Jews of Baghdad
	www.babylonjewry.org.il /new/english/pub23.htm (162 words)

	A Brief History of Iranian Jews
		[ Home ] [ Iran Hall ] [ History ]
		Iranian Jews are amongst the oldest inhabitants of the country.
		The temple of Marduk their major deity was restored and Cyrus crowned himself in the name of Marduk.The Jewish exiles in Babylon were permitted to go home and reconstruct the temple of Jerusalem and some chose to emigrate to Persia.
	www.iranonline.com /History/jews-history/index.html (1279 words)

	Famous Jews from Iraq - aliraqi Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daud Al Quiety (singer and conductor, the founder of the Israeli orchestra of the radio, performed with his brother, Salach,before the Iraqi king, sorry, no picture)
		Sammy Michael (author, the former chairman of the Communist party in Iraq)
		The most famous Jew is Nabi Na7oum of Alqosh
	www.aliraqi.org /forums/showthread.php?t=61647 (466 words)

	Country briefing: Iraq
		Do you know of a new link that we should add?
		The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Analysis
		Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq
	www.al-bab.com /arab/countries/iraq.htm (108 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)