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    Items with the tag:

    iraq

    Cover of This Is Not a Cholent
    Chil­dren’s
    This Is Not a Cholent
    Sarah Sassoon; Viviana Garofoli, illus.
    Cover of Just Say Welcome
    Chil­dren’s
    Just Say Welcome
    Emi­ly Raij
    Cover of A Boy from Baghdad
    Chil­dren’s
    A Boy from Baghdad
    Miri­am Halahmy
    Cover of The Eucalyptus Cookbook
    Cook­book
    The Euca­lyp­tus Cookbook
    Moshe Basson
    Cover of Blood of the Virgin
    Fic­tion
    Blood of the Virgin
    Sam­my Harkham
    Essay

    My Iraqi Jew­ish Grandmother’s Hands

    Sarah Sas­soon
    March 30, 2023
    Cover of Shoham's Bangle
    Chil­dren’s
    Shoham’s Ban­gle
    Sarah Sas­soon
    Cover of Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands
    Non­fic­tion
    Sephar­di Voic­es: The Untold Expul­sion of Jews from Arab Lands
    Hen­ry Green
    Richard Sturs­berg
    Cover of Cover Me With My Izar
    Fic­tion
    Cov­er Me With My Izar
    Nora Houri-Haim
    Essay

    ‘A Land­scape of Ghost Towns’: Geno­cide in Iraq

    Seth J. Frantzman
    November 4, 2019
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    July 1, 2014
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    Val­or: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front
    Mark Lee Greenblatt
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    Is His­to­ry a Prison or a Home?

    Ear­li­er this week, Joshua Fat­tal wrote about remem­ber­ing Hebrew School while a pris­on­er in Iran and being a Jew cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas in Iran­ian prison. He…
    Joshua Fat­tal
    March 21, 2014
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    New Baby­lo­ni­ans: A His­to­ry of Jews in Mod­ern Iraq
    Orit Bashkin
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    Fic­tion
    Tomor­row There Will Be Apricots
    Jes­si­ca Soffer
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    The Last Jews in Bagh­dad: Remem­ber­ing a Lost Homeland
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