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The Shamash Museum on Rashid Street in central Baghdad has drawn Iraqi and foreign visitors since opening last month, becoming the first museum in Iraq dedicated to the Jewish community. It houses documents, photographs, school records and personal belongings that document the history of Iraqi Jews, including material related to prominent figures. The museum is located in a school building founded by Yaqub Shlomo Shamash in 1928. The state seized the building in the 1970s, before a court ruling returned it to the community in 1992. Its opening is part of efforts to restore Jewish synagogues and sites and revive their heritage. The roots of the Jewish presence in Iraq date back around 2,600 years, but the community’s numbers fell sharply after the Farhud of 1941, in which more than 100 Jews were killed, and then following the mass emigration after Israel was established in 1948. Today, only a few dozen Jews live in Iraq.
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