The fantasy of the Jewish City

Remembering the Farhud (1-2 June 1941): Baghdad used to be the Big Apple, says Nachum Kaplan

People say that New York is Jewish. Well Baghdad used to be far more Jewish. In the early 20th Century, Jews represented 1/3 of the city’s population and they were the city’s single biggest ethnic group. Having been in that land for nearly 2.5 millenia, they thought they were home. It took 1 pogrom exactly 85 years ago to change all that. The so-called …