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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Baghdadi Jews

La Falfula Groove Iraqi. From left to right: David Regev-Zaarur, Itshak Zagzag, Yohani Perez, Alan Alaev, Gavriel Zikhron and Ben Machloof. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2024, 4:05 pm
Post-Oct. 7, Israeli band channeling 1930s Baghdad gets a boost from Iraqi musicians
Led by the great-grandson of a foremost Iraqi musician of his era, La Falfula Groove Iraqi personifies the spirit of a bygone age while maintaining virtual ties with the Arab world
By Gavriel Fiske
Clockwise from left: Victor Sassoon at a horse race in 1953 (Sassoon Papers and Photographs, DeGolyer Library, SMU/ Random House); A hospital built by David Sassoon for the city of Pune, circa 1855-1862. (Public domain); David Sassoon (seated) and his sons Elias David Sassoon, Albert Abdallah David Sassoon, and Sassoon David Sassoon. (Public domain)
November 26, 2022, 11:05 am
The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’
In ‘Sassoon,’ Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals
By Robert Philpot
Singapore’s Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law K. Shanmugam tours the museum with Nash Benjamin, center, the president of Singapore’s Jewish Welfare Board, and the Chief Rabbi of Singapore Mordechai Abergel. (Jewish Welfare Board of Singapre/ via JTA)
January 9, 2022, 12:23 am
A new museum tells the story of Singapore’s Jews, starting with their Baghdad roots
Countless landmarks in the city pay homage to the contributions and rich 200-year history of the small Jewish community, which now has a place to showcase its achievements
By Jordyn Haime
The Christmas rush at Nahoum & Sons this year. (Isaac Nahoum/Nahoum & Sons/ via JTA)
December 25, 2020, 4:35 pm
This 118-year-old Jewish bakery in India is a hit at Christmas time
Nahoum & Sons’ fruit cakes and Middle Eastern pastries are known far and wide. The only thing that’s changed since 1902 is the clientele
By Christabel Lobo
Members of the Indian Jewish community attend a morning prayer service at the Magen David Synagogue in Mumbai, January 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Indranil Mukherjee)
January 14, 2018, 7:46 am
Netanyahu trip highlights India’s tiny Jewish community
Shrinking population, dating back some 2,000 years, hopes the Israeli PM’s week-long visit will boost its profile
By Peter HUTCHISON
Sir Sassoon Eskell (center, in fez) sits directly on the left of King Faisal I of Iraq (with dark beard) in Baghdad in a photo from the 1920s. (Wikimedia Commons)
August 12, 2016, 10:47 pm
Dismay, poetry as home of Jew who helped found modern Iraq is destroyed
Tourism Ministry, historians and a poet decry demolition of 100-year-old villa of Sir Sassoon Eskell
By JTA and Dov Lieber
Sir Sassoon Eskell, a Baghdadi Jew who served as Iraq's first finance minister and was a key player in the founding of the early kingdom. (Courtesy: wikipedia)
August 7, 2016, 12:37 pm
Baghdad to destroy home of Jew who helped found modern Iraq
Country’s tourism ministry slams decision to demolish 100-year-old house of Sassoon Eskell
By Dov Lieber
Displaced Iraqi Jews, 1951 (Wikipedia)
May 30, 2016, 10:32 pm
Four cities to mark 75 years since Baghdad pogrom
1941 ‘Farhud’ massacre of at least 180 Jews in the Iraqi capital to be commemorated in Washington, New York, London, Jerusalem
By JTA
A Jewish wedding in Baghdad, date unknown. (courtesy/JIMENA)
From the WebApril 28, 2016, 4:09 am
In Israel, Iraqi Jews reflect on Baghdad heritage
Israelis are taking a new interest in Iraqi culture, decades after fleeing hardship, the New York Times reports
The Magen David Synagogue in central Mumbai, in a photo taken in February 2014. (photo credit: Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)
August 17, 2015, 10:49 am
India looking to attract ex-pats with Jewish heritage tours
Amid growing ties, ambassador unveils plans to renovate Jewish sites across subcontinent to boost tourism, relationship with Israel
By Stuart Winer
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