Lyn Julius
The Great Jewish Cities: Baghdad
Summary
In 1939, 33% of the population of Baghdad were Jews, making the city proportionately more Jewish than Warsaw or New York. Join us for a gentle meander in this lecture through the streets of a city where Jews lived for 2,600 years. Now, sadly, it is inhabited only by Jewish ghosts.
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (www.harif.org). Lyn blogs daily at Point of No Return (www.jewishrefugees.org.uk). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Jewish News, and Jerusalem Post. She has a regular column in the Times of Israel and JNS News. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight has been translated in to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic, and a Hebrew version is in progress.