People

Iraqi statesman and finance minister who played an important role in the formation of the modern Iraqi state.

Baghdad rabbi, halakhic authority and prolific author whose influence reached Jewish communities far beyond Iraq.

Leading Baghdad rabbi and educator associated with the development of rabbinic scholarship in nineteenth-century Iraq.

Chief Rabbi of Baghdad in the 1920s, publisher and communal leader.

Prominent Baghdadi Jewish politician, landowner and philanthropist associated with communal institutions and public life.

Iraqi Jewish poet, writer, journalist and translator who wrote extensively in Arabic.

Writer, economist, poet and communal leader who documented Iraqi public and cultural life.

Prominent Iraqi Jewish businessman whose 1948 trial and execution became a major event in the history of Iraqi Jewry.

Baghdad-born engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist who supported Iraqi Jewish cultural and educational initiatives.

Baghdad-born novelist, translator, journalist and civil-rights advocate whose work frequently engaged Arab-Jewish life.

Baghdad-born writer and public servant whose fiction explores Iraqi Jewish migration, identity and Arab-Jewish relations.

Baghdad-born novelist and scholar who wrote about Iraqi Jewish identity and Arabic-Hebrew cultural worlds.

Baghdad-born scholar of modern Arabic literature, translator and cultural bridge between Arabic and Hebrew literary traditions.

Baghdad-born scholar of Arabic language and literature and a major researcher of modern Arabic and Iraqi Jewish writing.

Baghdad-born Iraqi-British businessman, philanthropist and communal advocate who has worked to preserve Iraqi Jewish heritage, memory and links between Iraq and its…

Baghdad-born poet, painter and author whose work draws on Iraqi, Arabic, Jewish and Israeli cultural memory.

Iraqi Jewish singer celebrated as one of the leading voices of twentieth-century Iraqi music. She remained in Iraq after most of the Jewish community departed and…

Violinist and composer who, together with his brother Daoud, helped shape modern Iraqi urban music and worked with many major Iraqi singers.

Oud player and composer who formed a celebrated musical partnership with his brother Saleh and contributed substantially to twentieth-century Iraqi music.

Baghdad-born oud player, composer and singer associated with the professional musical culture of Iraq and later with Iraqi Jewish musical traditions in Israel.

Baghdad-born qanun player and musical director associated with Iraqi radio and the country’s modern musical scene.

Baghdad-trained qanun virtuoso whose musical education included the Jewish school for the blind and whose performances preserved Iraqi musical traditions.

Baghdad-born rabbinic authority who later served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and became one of the most influential Sephardi halakhic figures of the modern era.

Baghdad-born rabbi who later served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and maintained strong intellectual links to Babylonian and Sephardi rabbinic traditions.

Baghdad-born rabbi and kabbalist remembered for his scholarship in traditional Jewish mystical literature.

Baghdad-born rabbi and kabbalist whose life linked Iraqi rabbinic traditions with later Sephardi religious institutions in Jerusalem.

Baghdadi rabbi and communal leader associated with the religious institutions and leadership of Iraq’s Jewish community in the twentieth century.

Baghdad-born rabbi and kabbalist known for religious scholarship that emerged from the rich rabbinic culture of late Ottoman and early modern Baghdad.

Baghdad scholar, communal figure and kabbalist whose writings and family archive provide valuable evidence about Jewish intellectual life in Iraq.

Baghdad rabbi and communal leader who served in senior leadership of the Iraqi Jewish community during a period of profound political change.

Baghdad-born diplomat and politician closely associated with efforts that brought large numbers of Iraqi Jews to Israel during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

Baghdad-born politician and activist who played a major role in organizing the departure of Iraqi Jews during the mass migration of 1950–1951.

Baghdad-born historian and political thinker whose scholarship examined nationalism, the Middle East and modern political history.

Baghdad-born Arabic-language novelist and short-story writer whose work preserved Iraqi Jewish speech, memory and social worlds in literary form.

Baghdad-born writer and critic who later became a major figure in Canadian literary and cultural life while continuing to write about identity, migration and memory.

Baghdad-born Arabic-language writer and journalist whose fiction and memoir preserved the linguistic and social world of Iraqi Jews.

Baghdad-born writer and visual artist whose work explores Iraqi Jewish childhood, migration, memory and identity.

Zakho-born scholar and linguist renowned for documenting Jewish Neo-Aramaic languages and the oral traditions of Kurdistani Jews.

Baghdad-born actor with a long career in film, television and theatre and a prominent presence in Israeli and international cultural life.

Baghdad-born merchant, philanthropist and former treasurer of Baghdad who founded the commercial network that made the Sassoon family globally prominent.

Baghdad-born businessman and philanthropist who succeeded to leadership of the Sassoon commercial enterprise and became a prominent Baghdadi Jewish figure abroad.

Baghdad-born Jewish businessman who rose from modest circumstances to become one of the best-known property and business figures in early twentieth-century Shanghai.

Baghdad-born actor who studied drama in Iraq before building a long career in Israeli theatre and cinema.

Iraqi Jewish-born historian and intellectual whose trajectory, including his conversion to Islam, became part of the complex history of Jewish participation in…

Iraqi Jewish writer, poet, lawyer and parliamentarian regarded as a pioneer of modern Iraqi literature; he later continued his literary and legal work after leaving Iraq.

Baghdad-born Arabic-language novelist and short-story writer associated with social realism and the development of modern Iraqi prose.

Baghdad-born Arabic poet and scholar who became a specialist in modern Arabic literature and continued to promote Arabic literary culture after migration.

Baghdad-born author, poet and educator whose work addressed Iraqi identity, Judaism and the experience of displacement.

Baghdad businessman and community representative who served in leadership roles among the small Jewish community that remained in Iraq after the mass departure of the early 1950s.

Basra-born Iraqi Jew who later became an Israeli military officer, parliamentarian, Labor Party leader and government minister.