Traveling Exhibit Locations:
Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD www.jewishmuseummd.org
October 15, 2017 - January 15, 2018
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta, GA www.thebreman.org
January 28, 2018 - April 29, 2018
Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, TX
www.biblicalarts.org
May 11, 2018 - September 3, 2018
Previously shown at:
Jewish Museum of Florida - FIU, Miami Beach, FL
December 3, 2015 - February 14, 2016
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, CA
September 4, 2015 - November 15, 2015
National Archives at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
June 18, 2015 - August 15, 2015
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
February 4, 2014 - May 18, 2014
Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery, National Archives, Washington, DC
November 8, 2013 - January 5, 2014
This online version of the Arabic/English exhibit Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage replicates all the text and images exhibited in Washington, DC and New York City. For preservation reasons, a few new documents have been substituted for original items at later exhibit sites.
Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage
Enter the ExhibitJews have lived in Iraq for thousands of years, but when coalition forces entered Baghdad in May 2003 only very few remained. A U.S. Army team searching for weapons of mass destruction in the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, the headquarters of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence services, discovered over 2,700 Jewish books and tens of thousands of documents. The remarkable survival of this written record of Iraqi Jewish life provides an unexpected opportunity to better understand this community. The National Archives is preserving these books and documents and making them accessible worldwide.
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Video Clip: Recovering and Preserving Iraqi Jewish Books and Documents
