THEMATIC EXHIBITION

Rabbis and scholarship

Move from Baghdad’s academies to Kurdish Jewish scholarly traditions.

Historical context

Rabbis and scholarship

Iraqi Jewish learning was geographically diverse. Baghdad’s Bet Zilkha and the scholarship associated with Abdallah Somekh belong to a different setting from the Barzani tradition of Kurdistan, but both show how places and teaching networks reinforced one another.

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