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Shamash’s Jewish story
The Shamash Museum has opened on al-Rashid Street in Baghdad as the only museum dedicated to Iraq’s Jewish community. It houses documents, photographs and school records that chronicle the lives of Iraqi Jews and some of their prominent figures. The museum revives a Jewish school founded in 1928, while the roots of Jewish life in Iraq go back some 2,600 years. Tens of thousands left the country after the Farhud pogrom in 1941, in which more than 100 Jews were killed, and after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Today, only dozens of members of the community remain in Iraq, along with fewer than 50 Jewish synagogues and sites.
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