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What happened to the Jews in Iraq

36 events, 597 BC to 1969 AD

Regions in Iraq

Cities, towns and sites in Iraq

Timeline

6th century BC

  1. c. 597–538 BC Babylonian exile · Judah, Israel and Palestinian territories and elsewhere
  2. c. 587 BC Another siege of Jerusalem · Babylon, Iraq
  3. 541 BC First exiles return from Babylon to Jerusalem · Babylon, Iraq
  4. c. 538 BC Cyrus permits the return to Judah · Babylon, Iraq and elsewhere

4th century

  1. c. 331 AD Persecution and tax charge against Rabbah b. Naḥmani · Babylonia, Iraq
  2. c. 363 AD Romans burn Jewish towns of Birta, Firuz Shabur and Maḥuza · Babylonia, Iraq

5th century

  1. 456 AD Yezdegerd II forbids Sabbath observance · Babylonia, Iraq
  2. 468 AD Firuz executes exilarch Huna Mari; year of suffering · Babylonia, Iraq
  3. 468–474 AD Persecution under Firuz: synagogues destroyed, Torah study banned, children seized · Babylonia, Iraq
  4. c. 490–531 AD Kobad imposes land tax and poll tax on Jews · Babylonia, Iraq

6th century

  1. 511 AD Mar Zutra's Jewish state in Babylon crushed · Babylonia, Iraq
  2. 520 AD Execution of exilarch Mar Zuṭra II by King Kobad · Mahoza, Iraq
  3. 578–590 AD Persecution and closing of academies under Hormiz IV · Babylonia, Iraq

8th century

  1. 786–809 AD Harun-al-Rashid renews restrictions on Jews and Christians · Baghdad, Iraq

9th century

  1. c. 850 AD Al-Mutawakkil imposes badge, office ban and house tax on non-Muslims · Babylonia, Iraq
  2. c. 850 AD Confiscation of Jewish places of worship under Al-Mutawakkil · Babylonia, Iraq
  3. 880 AD Al-Mutawakkil reimposes restrictions and converts synagogues into mosques · Baghdad, Iraq

11th century

  1. 1040 AD Violent death of Hezekiah, last gaon of Pumbedita · Babylonia, Iraq

13th century

  1. c. 1201–1300 AD Near-annihilation of Mesopotamian Jewry in the 13th century · Mesopotamia, Iraq
  2. 1290 AD Massacre in Baghdad · Baghdad, Iraq
  3. c. 1291 AD Massacre of Jews in Bagdad after death of Arghun · Baghdad, Iraq

14th century

  1. 1333 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Baghdad · Baghdad, Iraq
  2. 1400 AD Tamerlane's siege of Bagdad kills Jewish refugees · Baghdad, Iraq

19th century

  1. 1875 AD Ottoman government allows a Jew a seat on Mosul municipal council · Mosul, Iraq
  2. 1893 AD Kurdish attack on the Jews of Bar Tanura · Bar Tanura, Iraq

20th century

  1. 1925–1941 AD Persecution of Kurdish Jews amid anti-Zionist propaganda in Iraq · Kurdistan Region, Iraq
  2. 1934 AD Dismissal of Jewish civil servants in Iraq · Baghdad, Iraq
  3. 1936–1941 AD Murders and bombings targeting Jews in Iraq · Baghdad, Iraq
  4. 1941 AD Farhud · Baghdad, Iraq
  5. 1941 AD Jewish commando David Raziel killed in Iraq · Iraq
  6. 1947 AD Military trials and fines against Baghdad Jews · Baghdad, Iraq
  7. 1948 AD Arrests of Baghdadi Jews and hangings after Israel's founding · Baghdad, Iraq
  8. 1950–1951 AD 1950–1951 Baghdad bombings · Baghdad, Iraq
  9. 1951 AD Abolition of the Baghdad rabbinical court · Baghdad, Iraq
  10. 1958–1963 AD Restrictions and confiscations under Qassem · Iraq
  11. 1969 AD Public hanging of Jews convicted of spying for Israel · Baghdad, Iraq

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