On 1 June 1941, the Nazi-inspired Farhud erupted in Baghdad, accelerating the demise of more than two millennia of peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs. The pogrom finally ceased on 2 June with the deaths of over 180 Jews, thousands injured, and the lives of all Iraqi Jews permanently changed. The Farhud (Arabic for ‘violent dispossession’) was shocking for the Jewish community, who represented some of the country’s most successful businessmen, cultural figures, and intellectual leaders. Within a decade, the overwhelming majority would emigrate to Israel, leaving a small community of vulnerable Jews behind. One survivor of the pogrom, who...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
