The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century

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.

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