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Four Jews back in Iraq

Mar 29, 2021
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Recently, the Jewish doctor died Dhafer Eliyahu in Iraq. His death hit hard in Iraq, not only because he was known to treat the poor free, but because there are only four Jews back in the country.

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On the Jewish funeral site in Habibiya in the capital Baghdad, squeezed between the Martyr Monument built by Ex-Dictator Saddam Hussein and the recurring Shiite Højborg Sadr City, an old Muslim man still fits on the Jewish burial sites, but there are only rare visitor.

Eliyahus Sister Bad Kaddish (special prayer as Jews pray over the deceased – Read more about the prayer here) Over his grave
Jewish prayer heard only very rarely in Baghdad, where there is only a synagogue back as only Opens occasionally and there are no rabbi.

The Jewish people’s roots in Iraq go back about 2,600 years back.

According to Biblical Tradition, Jews came to Iraq (Babylonia) in 586 BC. As prisoners of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezar II, after he destroyed Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem.
in Iraq wrote the Jews in the Babylonian Talmud (read more about Talmud here) about the country where the patriarch Abraham was born and where Eden Having of some considered to have been placed in the heart of the mesopotamic swamp areas.
more than 2,500 years later, under Ottoman-guided Baghdad, Jews constituted the second largest society in the city and 40 percent of the city’s inhabitants. Br>
Some Jews were very prominent members of society such as Sassoon Eskell, Iraq’s first Minister of Finance ever in 1920, who made great impression on the British adventurer and author Gertrude Bell.

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At the beginning of the last century, the official rest day and prayer day was Saturday, according to Jewish tradition – not Friday according to Islam as it is today.

Today “asking at home”, told resident in Baghdad who knows about the city’s Jewish communities. When people with a Jewish name are dealing with administration “, they will not be well received”, added he or she added to be anonymous.

According to Edwin Shuker, a Jew born in Iraq in 1955 and forced to lamp to Britain as 16-year-old, “there are only four Jews with Iraqi nationality derived from Jewish parents” back in the country, including The autonomous Kurdish region. Shuker helped to mark the international memorial day for Jewish refugees from Arab countries along with Infinitum News via an online event 23 November 2020 – read more here.

Jewish history in Iraq was turned upside down when the first pogroms broke out in the country in the middle of the 20th century. In June 1941, more than 100 Jews were murdered during leaving the farhud pogrommen in Baghdad, Jewish-owned properties were plundered and Jewish homes destroyed. Read more about the Fahud Program here.

in 1948 with the restoration of Israel as a Jewish national home to the Jewish people, attacks several Arab countries, including Iraq, the Jewish state.
Almost all Iraq’s 150,000 Jews went into exile in the following years.

Their identity card was taken from them and replaced by documents that made them legitimate targets for attacks wherever they turned out
. Most Jews chose to sign documents in which they would leave the country “voluntarily” and renounce their nationality and property.
Today, tells Shuker, prohibits Iraqi law to give them their Iraqi citizenship .

in 1951 had 96 percent of the Jews abandoned Iraq.
virtually all of the remaining 4 percent fled by public hangings of “Israeli spies” in 1969 by the Baath Party who had come to the power after a coup.

“promotion of Zionism” could be punished with death – law also applies today.

Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s brought conflict and instability to the country, the same did the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the international embargo, the US invasion of the country in 2003 and the subsequent violence – all it destroyed the last remains of the Jewish community.

By the end of 2009, according to US sources, there were Jews back, but it became worse yet.

A Jewish jeweler was threatened by militants and went into exile followed by Amer Moussa Nassim, Grand Neva of the author and the famous economist Mir Basri, in 2011.

As 38-year-old Nassim said that he left Baghdad for finally living “a normal life” and getting married when the only remaining Jewish women in the city with millions of people were two older women.
Six months ago, one of the two, known as Sittic (lady in Arabic) Marcelelle, a tireless spokesman for society. And on March 15, she was followed by Elyahu, 61 years old.

Israel, on the other hand, has become the harvest of 219,000 Jews of Iraqi origin.

They left their homes and synagogues in Iraq, who Until 2003 “was in perfect condition and each owner could be identified,” Shuker said.
“Everything required is a vote in Parliament” to return everything to the families.
Today standing buildings Empty, resolved and neglected as silent witnesses to violence, war corruption and mismanagement in a country like once had a rich Jewish culture.

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