Alan Yentob
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Alan Yentob was a British television executive and presenter. He held senior roles at the BBC, including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1 and BBC2, and was the corporation's creative directo
Yentob in 2017
History of the Jews in Iraq
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The history of the Jews in Iraq is documented from the time of the Assyrian captivity in the 8th century BCE and Babylonian captivity. Iraqi Jews, also known as Bavlim, constitute one of the world's o
Alan Yentob
…until 2015. He was also chairman of the board of trustees of the charity Kids Company from 2003 until its collapse in 2015. Yentob was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Stepney, London, the son of Flora Esther (née Khazam) and Isaac Reuben Yentob. Soon after he was born, his family moved to Manchester where…
Rabbi Ezra Dangoor with his family in Baghdad, 1910
Jewish scribes at Ezekiel's Tomb, 1914
Jews in Rawanduz, northern Iraq, 1905
Rabbis of Iraq at the beginning of the twentieth century