The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century

The Agonies of Redemption
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70809-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th century, tells the story of Jews who were persecuted and murdered by nationalist Iraqi regimes from 1932-1952. It details firings, school expulsions, show trials and confiscation of assets while Israel, Britain, the USA and France ignored pleas for help. Yehuda’s book includes the Israeli intelligence network’s pre- and post-independence activity in Iraq, rare evidence gathered by the author from newly available Iraqi archives, archival Israeli agency reports, interviews the author had with Iraqi Jews who immigrated to Israel, among others. It presents the definitive story of the Masuda Shemtob Synagogue bombing and fills important gaps concerning the Great Powers’ relations with Iraq during the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yehuda, Zvi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Marian, Scheuer Sofaer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Introduction

1 Bomb-Throwers in Baghdad

2 Nuri al-Said and the Jews

1 The Shattered Dream

1 The Status of the Jews

2 Incitement and Hatred

3 Assaults and Persecution

4 The Farhud Pogroms

2 On the Way to Expulsion

1 Iraqi Jews and Palestinian Arabs

2 State of Emergency

3 Zionism Is a Crime against the State

4 Senator Ezra Daniel’s Speech

5 Raised to the Stake

6 The Revenge of al-Said

3 The Pursuit of HaTenua

1 The Persecutions

2 To Rescue the Jews of Iraq

4 The Expulsion

1 Campaign of Economic and Social Persecutions

2 Escaping the Rule of Evil

5 In the Eye of the Storm

1 Israeli Espionage Network in Baghdad

6 The Bitter End

1 Who Is to Blame for the Deportation?

2 A Sinister Plot

3 Arrested and Trapped

4 Two Hanged on False Charges

5 A Staged Trial

6 Lies and Deception

7 Efforts to Save the Condemned

Epilogue: a State Put to the Test

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zvi Yehuda, Ph.D. (1982), Chairman of the Academic Council, BJHC (Israel). Author and editor of more than twenty volumes, including The New Babylonian Diaspora, The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Community in Iraq (Brill, 2017), published articles and documented films.