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  • The Adas family, circa 1942
    The Adas family, circa 1942
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    The Adas Affair

    The life and death of the richest Jew in Iraq

    byAdi Schwartz
  • Samir Naqqash.
    Samir Naqqash.
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    Master of the Double Exile

    The late Iraqi Israeli novelist Samir Naqqash was forever torn between competing loyalties. An English translation of ‘Tenants and Cobwebs,’ his portrait of 1940s Baghdad, shows him to be the tragic chronicler of the uprooting of Iraqi Jews.

    byMardean Isaac
  • Left to right: Harold Rhode in the Mukhabarat basement; Torah scroll drying in a courtyard; 1918 letter from the British Military Governor’s Office in Baghdad to the Chief Rabbi regarding the allotment of 500 sheep for Rosh Hashanah.(National Archives)
    Left to right: Harold Rhode in the Mukhabarat basement; Torah scroll drying in a courtyard; 1918 letter from the British Military Governor’s Office in Baghdad to the Chief Rabbi regarding the allotment of 500 sheep for Rosh Hashanah.(National Archives)
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    Iraqi Jewish Treasures Displayed in D.C. Before Being Shipped Back to … Iraq

    In the chaos of the 2003 war, remnants of a once-thriving Jewish past were saved (or stolen?) by America. Where do they belong?

    byLisa Leff
  • An 1885 ketubah from Isfahan, Iran.(The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary)
    An 1885 ketubah from Isfahan, Iran.(The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary)
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    Unveiled

    A collection of ketubot at New York’s Jewish Museum prompts the Jewish Theological Seminary’s chancellor to consider marriage contracts from medieval times to our own

    byArnold Eisen
  • A Shiite Muslim Iraqi who cares for the shrine of Ezra, near Basra, points to some Hebrew etching on what was once a holy ark.(AFP/Getty Images)
    A Shiite Muslim Iraqi who cares for the shrine of Ezra, near Basra, points to some Hebrew etching on what was once a holy ark.(AFP/Getty Images)
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    Far From Home

    On the eve of the Iraqi elections, the daughter of Iraqi Jews mourns the destruction of Baghdad’s once-vibrant Jewish community

    byMarina Benjamin
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    Outsider in the Promised Land

    The hero of Shimon Ballas

    byUnknown Author
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    City of Dreams

    A memoirist recalls what came after the thriving Baghdad of his youth

    byLee Smith
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    The Outsider

    In Baghdad, Nissim Rejwan distanced himself from other Iraqi Jews. In Israel, he became a fierce advocate for their disappearing culture.

    byDavid B. Green
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    Slow Fade

    A London-born writer travels to Baghdad to find the city that suffused her family’s imagination

    byJessie Graham
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    Spoils of War

    Importing dates, Iraqi-style

    byAmanda Aronczyk
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