At the beginning of the 18th century the Jews of Baghdad began emigrating to India, and a portion of these eventually wound up making it to China. At the end of the 19th century, an emigration to Palestine began. For a long…
Category: Jews of Iraq
BEFORE THE DELUGE: THE JEWS OF IRAQ (PART I)
Born in 1921, the so-called Kingdom of Iraq loosely equated itself with the Babylon of old, to which Jewish settlements and culture were connected going back to the oldest of these states. In Ur Kasdim, which today is Mukajjar, stood…