The new Babylonian diaspora : the rise and fall of the Jewish community in Iraq, 16th-20th centuries C.E. /

The new Babylonian diaspora : the rise and fall of the Jewish community in Iraq, 16th-20th centuries C.E. /

The New Babylonian Diaspora: Rise and Fall of Jewish Community in Iraq, 16th-20th Centuries C.E. provides a historical survey of the Iraqi Jewish community's evolution from the apex of its golden age to its disappearance, emergence, rapid growth and annihilation. Making use of Judeo-Arabic news...

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Main Author: Yehuda, Zvi.

Corporate Author: Merkaz moreshet Yahadut Bavel (Or Yehudah, Israel)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Boston: Brill, [2017]

Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 57.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.

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Jews > Iraq > History.
Iraq > Ethnic relations.

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Call Number: DS135.I7

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • From Destruction to Revival
  • Rise and Fall of the New Babylonian Diaspora
  • The Jewish Blood-Libel against Christians in Basra (1791)
  • Struggle of Iraqi Jewry for Control of Prophet Ezekiel's Tomb at Kifil (1860)
  • Events Surrounding the Burial of Rabbi Abdalla Somekh (1889) and Their Consequences
  • The Pogrom (Farhud) of 1941, Reexamination
  • Bibliography
  • Index.