The author of a work on the Nazi-era massacre in Baghdad believed to have precipitated the Jewish exodus from Iraq is commemorating its 75th anniversary with candle lightings in four cities.
Edwin Black, who in 2010 published “The Farhud,” about the June 1-2, 1941 massacre of at least 180 Jews in Baghdad, will convene candle lightings tomorrow morning on Capitol Hill and in the afternoon at the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue in New York.
On Thursday, there will be a candle lighting in London, which has a large Iraqi Jewish community, and then on June 26 at the Knesset in Jerusalem.
The pogrom, set off by the collapse of a popular pro-Nazi government in Baghdad, is seen as a turning point for Iraqi Jews. A series of subsequent decrees and attacks emptied the country of its ancient Jewish community by the early 1970s, with barely 100 Jews remaining.
In each city, 27 candles will be lit for the 27 centuries that Jewish life thrived in what is now Iraq.
— JTA
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