The Hackenblog

December 27, 2008

There are 8 Jews left in Baghdad

Filed under: war — Ginger Mayerson @ 9:45 pm

“Once one of the largest Jewish communities in the Middle East, Baghdad Jews have now nearly vanished while the country has been consumed by sectarian war.”

~snip~

“Iraq’s Jewish community dates from biblical times. According to Charles Tripp’s History of Iraq, the country was home to 117,000 Jews in 1947.”
Reminiscences of old Baghdad by one of last Jews, Reuters, November 9, 2008

I didn’t know there were any Jews left in Baghdad.

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