Posts Tagged: Farhud Iraq
The Old Jewish Cemetery of Baghdad: A Forgotten Chapter in Iraq’s History
The old Jewish cemetery in Baghdad, a relic of a once-thriving Jewish community, holds the stories of generations who contributed to Iraq’s social, cultural, and...
Why We Need to Remember the Farhud
JNS.org - Iraq is in the news again, this time due to its passage of a “draconian” law that forbids contact between Israel and Iraqi...
On Farhud Day, Many Ask: Could it Happen Again?
JNS.org - History keeps demanding to repeat itself. We bar the door and avert our eyes. But history proves itself an irrepressible companion, constantly jumping...
To Combat Shoah Denial, Call Out Arab Antisemitism
JNS.org - The walls of Holocaust denial are crumbling, wrote Washington Institute for Near East Policy executive director Robert Satloff earlier this month. We are...
The Difficult and Important Task of Commemorating Iraqi Jewry’s Farhud
JNS.org - Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell about the Farhud, the two-day pogrom that befell the Jews of Baghdad 75 years ago in...
When Iraq Expelled Its Jews to Israel: The Inside Story
After Adolf Hitler’s defeat in May 1945, many Nazis melted away from the Reich, smuggled out by such organizations as the infamous Odessa group and...
Remembering Farhud Day and the Arab Pogroms
While I was speaking to the packed room, a woman I did not know, sitting in the front row, slowly shook her tear-stained head in...
Was the ‘Farhud’ Really a Nazi Event?
Last week was the 73rd anniversary of a cataclysmic event in the tragic annals of Iraq's Jews: the outbreak, on June 1-2, 1941, of the Farhud. The Farhud...
