The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951In this study, Moshe Gat details how the immigration of the Jews from Iraq in effect marked the eradication of one of the oldest and most deeply-rooted Diaspora communities. He provides a background to these events and argues that both Iraqi discrimination and the actions of the Zionist underground in previous years played a part in the flight. The Denaturalization law of 1950 saw tens of thousands of Jews registering for emigration, and a bomb thrown at a synagogue in 1951 accelerated the exodus. |
Contents
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The Jewish Community in the Independent Iraqi State | 17 |
Iraq Changes its Official Policy towards the Jewish | 32 |
The Legislation on Jewish Emigration | 68 |
Organizing the Exodus | 79 |
Near East moves | 90 |
Israels immigration policy | 101 |
Iraq Israel and the Jewish Emigration Question | 106 |
68 | 122 |
96 | 128 |
The Property Freezing Law March 1951 | 144 |
Was Terror Employed to Accelerate the Exodus? | 160 |
Conclusion | 192 |
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