Iraqi Jews - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia - Arab
The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are a large and heterogenous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originatin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mizrahi Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Mizrahi Jews - Language
Many Mizrahi communities existed in Arab countries, and at various times spoke a number of Judeo-Arabic dialects, though these are now ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Who Is An Arab?
The definition of who an Arab is has several aspects: Ethnic identity: someone who considers himself to be an Arab (regardless of racial...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ovadia Yosef: Encyclopedia Ii - Ovadia Yosef - Controversy
Among secular Israelis, Yosef is mainly famous for being the leader of the political party called Shas and for his fierce and sharp rheto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Arab Period 634-1258
The first legal expression of Islam toward the Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians after the conquests of the 630s were the poll-tax ("jiz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mizrahi Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Mizrahi Jews - Language
Many Mizrahi communities existed in Arab countries, and at various times spoke a number of Judeo-Arabic dialects, though these are now ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Operation Ezra And Nehemiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Operation Ezra And Nehemiah - Background
Since 1945 in Iraq, there were frequent demonstrations against the Jews and especially against Zionism. On 1947 with the affirmation of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethnic Divisions: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethnic Divisions - Divisions
Because of the independence of local communities, Jewish "ethnicities", even when they circumscribe differences in liturgy, language, cui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - History
The first written attestation of the ethnonym "Arab" occurs in an Assyrian inscription of 853 BC, where Shalmaneser III lists a King Gind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Traditional Genealogy
Medieval Arab genealogists divided the Arabs into three groups: the "ancient Arabs", tribes that had been destroyed or vanished, such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Early Biblical History
In the Bible, Babylon and the country of Babylonia are not always clearly distinguished, in most cases the same word being used for both....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mizrahi Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Mizrahi Jews - Post-1948 Dispersal
Most Mizrahi Jews fled their countries of birth when, in reaction to the events leading up the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and subsequent estab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mizrahi Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Mizrahi Jews - Mizrahim In Modern Israel
Since their arrival in Israel, the Mizrahim have distinguished themselves from their Ashkenazi and Sephardi counterparts in culture, cust...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Operation Ezra And Nehemiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Operation Ezra And Nehemiah - Airlift
Waiting in Baghdad was a tense and difficult period. Some 50,000 Jews signed up in one month, and two months later there were 90,000 on t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Religions
Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion featuring the worship of a number of deities, including Hubal, Wadd, Al-Lat, M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Modern Times 1922-
Sociologist Philip Mendes asserts that before the anti-Jewish actions of the 1930s and 1940s, overall Iraqi Jews "viewed themselves as Ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ovadia Yosef: Encyclopedia Ii - Ovadia Yosef - Influence
Ovadia Yosef - Government Influence. In 1990 he used his position as Shas spiritual leader to pressure Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ovadia Yosef: Encyclopedia Ii - Ovadia Yosef - Biography
Yosef was born in Baghdad, Iraq, part of the ancient community of Iraqi Jews, but moved to Jerusalem with his family when he was four yea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethnic Divisions: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethnic Divisions - History
As long ago as Biblical times, cultural and linguistic differences between Jewish communities even within the area of Palestine are obser...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Turkish Rule 1534-1922
After various changes of fortune, Mesopotamia and Iraq came into the hands of the Ottoman Turks, when Sultan Sulaiman II in 1534 took Teb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Babylonia As The Center Of Judaism 219 Ce - ~1050 Ce
After the fall of Jerusalem, Babylon would become the focus of Judaism for more than a thousand years. The rabbi Abba Arika, afterward ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethnic Divisions: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethnic Divisions - In Israel
Although the Jewish population was severely reduced after the Arab invasions of the 7th century, Jews were always present in Palestine. O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Parthian Period
Jewish sources contain no mention of Parthian influence; the very name "Parthian" does not occur, unless indeed "Parthian" is meant by "P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mizrahi Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Mizrahi Jews - Mizrahim In Modern Israel
Since their arrival in Israel, the Mizrahim have distinguished themselves from their Ashkenazi and Sephardi counterparts in culture, cust...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mizrahi Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Mizrahi Jews - Post 1948 Dispersal
Most Mizrahi Jews fled their countries of birth when, in reaction to the events leading up the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and subsequent estab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Late Biblical History And The Babylonian Exile
Three times during the 6th century BCE, the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. These three se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Iraq: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Iraq - Sassanid Period 225-634
The Persian people were now again to make their influence felt in the history of the world. Ardashir I destroyed the rule of the Arsacids...   » Read the article