Iraq's Jews

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008 @ 19:59 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:
Iraq
Topics:
History, Religion
Languages:
English

Iraqi blogger Wameeth draws our attention to Iraqi Jews. “Iraqi Jews are one of the most sensitive topics in Iraq, one of largest markets in Iraq in the center of Baghdad trade market is called the Jew market ,it was the center of all the trade in Iraq till the beginning of the sixties of the last century, one of the biggest history and religion thinkers in Iraq is Ahmad Sosa he was a Jew and later became a Muslim,” he explains.

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