Discovering the Iraqi Jewish archive
The Iraqi Jewish Archive is a collection of over 2,700 books and tens of thousands of historical documents from Iraq's Jewish community, that were found in 2003 in the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters by a special US army team. The collection includes a wide variety of books and rare documents, ranging from 500-year-old commentaries on the Talmud to personal letters sent during the 1950s. Dr. Harold Rhode, a former Middle Eastern analyst in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, who was stationed in Iraq at the time, recognized that the collection of…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.