A major nineteenth- and twentieth-century rabbinic academy in Baghdad, associated especially with Hakham Abdallah Somekh and generations of Iraqi Jewish scholarship.
What the atlas knows—and what it does not.
Locations marked approximate or city-level are intentionally shown with reduced precision. The source record remains accessible so interpretation never replaces evidence.
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Baghdad city map, 1958
A detailed U.S. Army city sheet that can be overlaid on the modern atlas to compare central Baghdad’s street geography.
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Baghdad region map, 1942 edition
A regional military map that situates Baghdad within the wider river, road and settlement landscape of the early 1940s.
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Baghdad street and overhanging balconies, 1932
Visual context: a Baghdad street with traditional overhanging balconies, photographed in 1932. This is not a photograph of the exact heritage site.
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Market life in Iraq, 1932
Visual context: an Iraqi market photographed by the Matson collection in 1932, evoking the commercial world of interwar Baghdad. It is not the exact heritage site.
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