Kurdistani Jews are the Mizrahi Jewish communities from the geographic region of Kurdistan, roughly covering parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Kurd
Rabbi Moshe Gabai, head of the Jewish community of Zakho, with Israeli President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in 1951
Illuminated plaque on paper with calligraphy and decorative elements. Includes four liturgical poems for Purim customary among Kurdish Jews; mid-19th century, Kurdistan
Jewish Kurd, 19th century, Ottoman era
Views of the solidarity protest for Rojava organized by Kurdish Jews on October 12, 2019, in Jerusalem, Israel
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
History of the Jews in Kurdistan
…Barry Rubin, "a number of Jews living in northern Iraq among the Kurdish population considered themselves culturally Kurdish, and even in Israel some Iraqi Jewish immigrants still identify with that group." According to the memoirs of Benjamin of Tudela and Pethahiah of Regensburg, there were about 100 Jewish…
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