Amid all the press about the return of the Iraqi Jewish Archive and the related
exhibition in Washington DC are a few links to the online exhibit "Preserving
the Iraqi Jewish Archive" (http://ija.archives.gov/)
"Startling evidence of the once vibrant Jewish life in Iraq came to light in
May 2003 — over 2,700 books and tens of thousands of documents were discovered
in the flooded basement of the Iraqi intelligence headquarters by a US Army
team.
The remarkable survival of this written record of Iraqi Jewish life provides an
unexpected opportunity to better understand this 2,500-year-old Jewish
community. For centuries, it had flourished in what had generally been a
tolerant, multicultural society. But circumstances changed dramatically for
Jews in the mid-twentieth century, when most Iraqi Jews fled and were stripped
of their citizenship and assets.
To provide accessibility throughout the world to the damaged materials found in
2003, the US National Archives and Records Administration and its partners have
preserved, cataloged, and digitized the books and documents."
I might add that the initial report of the conservation team ("The Iraqi
Jewish Archive Preservation Report") was published by the MELA Committee on
Iraqi Libraries ten years ago:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/melairaq.html
-Chuck Jones-
Penn State
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