A Twentieth-Century Yemenite Version of the Pact of Umar, 1905.

by hadassah | Aug 3, 2008 | Jews of Yemen

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Beneficent This is a decree which the Jews must obey as commanded. They are obliged to observe everything in it. They are forbidden to disobey it. It is intended to remind them of what the governors of the Ottoman Empire...

Iraq and the Jewish People: An Ancient Relationship, Lawrence H. Schiffman, COJS.

by hadassah | Jun 19, 2008 | Jews of Iraq, Returning and Redemption

The mass emigration of Jews from Iraq in the years 1950 and 1951 brought to an end the existence of a community which had been in the region for millennia. From the very birth of Judaism in what was then Mesopotamia, Jews have been present in or very strongly linked...

Yemenite Jews Awaiting Airlift

by hadassah | Apr 27, 2008 | An Uneasy Truce and the Suez War, Jews of Yemen, Returning and Redemption

The Iraqi Government Urges that Jewish Emigration be Speeded Up, 1951, Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, Jewish Publication Society, 2003.

by hadassah | Apr 27, 2008 | An Uneasy Truce and the Suez War, Jews of Iraq, Returning and Redemption

Click here for more on The Creation and History of Iraq. THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT URGES THAT JEWISH EMIGRATION BE SPEEDED UP OR IT WILL TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES OF ITS OWN (1951) Cypher/OTP FOREIGN OFFICE AND WHITEHALL DISTRIBUTION FROM BAGHDAD TO FOREIGN OFFICE Sir H. Mack...

The Progress of Jewish Emigration from Iraq Two Months before the Expiration of the Law Permitting It, Jan. 18, 1951, Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, Jewish Publication Society, 2003.

by hadassah | Apr 27, 2008 | An Uneasy Truce and the Suez War, Jews of Iraq, Returning and Redemption

Click here for more on The Creation and History of Iraq. CONFIDENTIAL British Embassy BAGHDAD (1572/5/51) 18th January, 1951 Dear Geoffrey, Please refer to my letter No. 1571/160/50 on the 20th December about Iraqi Jews. The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior has informed...

The Zionist Underground in Iraq Appeals to the Jews to Register for Emigration, Apr. 8, 1950, Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, Jewish Publication Society, 2003.

by hadassah | Apr 27, 2008 | An Uneasy Truce and the Suez War, Jews of Iraq, Returning and Redemption

Click here for more on The Creation and History of Iraq. Saturday, April 8, 1950, 4 P.M. A Call to the Jewish Community O Children of Zion Residents of Babylon, Save Yourselves For the second time in the history of this diaspora, after 2,488 years, we are hearing the...