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Carole Basri

Jun 2, 2021, 4:31 PM

First came the Farhud: The 2-stage ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jewry

The author's great grandfather, Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (1848–1930), Chief Rabbi of Baghdad from 1923 to 1926, at the Shrine of Joshua, the High Priest in Baghdad

Eighty years after slaughter, rape and robbery, after expulsion and dispossession, Iraqi Jews are denied access to a precious archive of their communal history

Mar 6, 2018, 3:24 PM

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Do not give holy Jewish artifacts to a country that expelled its Jews

Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)

The US government is poised to give Torah scrolls and other Jewish artifacts to a country that expelled its Jews

About Me

Carole Basri is the daughter of Iraqi Jewish Refugees; The Frank Iny School, the last Jewish school to operate in Baghdad, was built by her grandfather. She is the producer, together with Adriana Davis, of four films about the Jews of Iraq. Their latest, “Saving the Iraqi Jewish Archives: A Journey of Identity” explores the significance of the archives and the struggle to keep it safe and accessible.