Jews thrived in Iraq for some 2,500 years, but it only took 50 years for their community to all but disappear.
The preservation of Iraqi Jewish life is an extraordinary story, and it’s being told in Atlanta right now at the Breman Museum.
In May 2003, coalition troops charged with searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction, were instead tipped off about a curious discovery in the basement of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein’s palace. The basement, flooded with four feet of water, held thousands of books and tens of thousands of documents on Iraqi Jewish culture.
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