From a Flooded Basement in Baghdad to Exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Maryland: The Intriguing Story of the “Iraqi Jewish Archive”
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Over 2,700 Jewish books and tens of thousands of documents were discovered in the flooded basement of the Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. This remarkable trove provides a written record of Iraqi Jewish life and an unexpected opportunity to better understand the Iraqi Jewish community, which flourished in Iraq for more than 2,000 years.