al-Farhūd
Subtitle: the 1941 pogrom in Iraq
By: edited by Shmuel Moreh and Zvi Yehuda
Contributors: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim); Merkaz moreshet Yahadut Bavel (Or Yehudah, Israel)
Publisher: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism; The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center; The Hebrew University Magnes Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789654934909
Subjects: Antisemitism; Jews; Persecutions; Jewish literature; History and criticism; Ethnic relations; History
Other titles: 1941 pogrom in Iraq; Al-farhūd; Śinʼat Yehudim u-feraʻot be-ʻIraḳ. English.
Description: The present volume is being published on the sixty-ninth anniversary of the Farhud, the pogrom committed by religious and nationalist Arabs against the Jews of Iraq on the Jewish holiday of Pentecost (Shavu'ot), 1-2 June 1941.

A Hebrew edition of this book was published in 1992 by the Research Institute of Babylonian Jewry in Or Yehuda, Israel. This volume is a revised version of the Hebrew edition. It consists of papers on the pogrom and on the events leading up to it which were originally published in English, others which were written in Hebrew and now appear in English for the first time, and documents which have not been previously published, including an updated list of the names of victims of the Farhud and a map indicating the places in Baghdad where rioters attacked Jews. The book thus provides the English reader with comprehensive and updated information on the Farhud and constitutes a memorial to the innocent victims killed during these pogroms and whose only crime was that they were Jews. --Book Jacket.
Notes: "This volume is a revised version of the Hebrew edition"--P. [xi].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Shmuel Moreh; title: The pogrom (Farhūd) of 1941 in light of new sources / Zvi Yehuda; title: National Socialism in the Arab Near East, 1933-1939 / Stefan Wild; title: The sack of Baṣra and the Farhūd in Baghdad / Elie Kedourie; title: The role of the Palestinian incitement and the attitude of Arab intellectuals to the Farhūd / Shmuel Moreh; title: The anti-Jewish Farhūd in Baghdad, 1941 / Hayyim J. Cohen; title: The Communists in Iraq and Rashīd ʻĀlī al-Kaylānī's revolt / Nissim Kazzaz; title: The Baghdad pogrom and Zionist policy / Esther Meir-Glitzenstein; title: The pogrom of June 1941 in the literature of Iraqi Jews in Israel / Shmuel Moreh; title: List of victims of the Farhūd ; Map of the pogrom (Farhūd) ; Selected documents on the pogrom (Farhūd) / Zvi Yehuda.