From Integration to Exile: Iraqi Jews’ Displacement of 1950-1951  

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From Integration to Exile: Iraqi Jews’ Displacement of 1950-1951  

Summer 2026 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This paper examines the collapse of Iraq’s ancient Jewish community and the departure of more than 120,000 Iraqi Jews between 1950 and 1951. It argues that the …