Journal of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

No. 2, Autumn 1982

• -Greetings from Minister Mordechai Ben-Porat.
• -Ben-Porat Proposes an Enquiry Commission.
• NEWS FROM THE CENTER:
  • -Decisions of the Executive.
  • -Members of the Executive.
  • -Academic Activities of the Institute.
  • -Report on the Institute for Research.
  • -On Iraqi Jewry by Dr. Y. Avishur.
  • -Annual Conference.
  • -Contributions and Gifts from Friends of the Center.
  • -Iraqi Jews Educational Development Fund.
  • -Each Generation and Its Benefactors.
  • -From Our Communities Abroad.
• JEWISH COMMUNITIES PAST AND PRESENT:
  • -Baghdad in 1910 by Prof. E. Kedourie.
  • -How Iraqi Zionists Understood Zionism in the 1920's by Dr. Z. Yehuda.
  • -Tales of Aliyah and Absorption.
• "ROOTS":
  • -"We Want to Know What It Was Like in Iraq" by E.Agasi and T.Zorea.
  • -Winter Customs and Folkways by E.Agasi.
• DO YOU KNOW?
  • -Grandmother Sarah Avraham: a folktale retold by E. Haddad.
  • -The Late Rishon Letzion Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim.
  • -Nineteenth Century Halutzim: The Basrawi Family by A.Haim
  • -Barukh Nadel's Slander Disproved
• FROM OUR COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL:
  • -Meeting of Former Underground Members.
  • -The Association of Jewish Academics from Iraq.
  • -1500-2000 Dunam in Samaria Owned by Jews from Arab Countries.
• OBITUARIES:
  • Dr. Aharon Elias.
  • Ezra Meir Lewee.
  • Dr. Selman Derwish.

• -Mordechai Ben-Porat, Outgoing Chairman.
• -Shlomo Hillel MK, The Center's New Chairman.
• -Meeting Between the Late David Ben-Gurion, Mordechai Ben-Porat and the
• Late Avraham El-Kabir.
• -Academic Activities of the Iraqi Jews Traditional Culture Center.
• -Some Members of the Center's Excutive.
• -Prof. Shmuel Moreh.
• -Prof. Jacob Mansour.
• -Dr. Yitzhak Avishur, Scientific Director.
• -Putting on the Izar.
• -An Izar and an Abaya on Display at The Israel Museum.
• -Weizmann Institute President Prof. M. Sela Present Scroll to Mr. Y. Assia.
• -Dr. David Sala.
• -Dr. Zvi Yehuda.
• -A Zionist Group in Baghdad Headed by Sasson Rishti (This Photo Was Taken
• After All Zionist Activity Was Forbidden in Iraq).
• -Evening Classes in Hebrew in Baghdad in 1933 (Teacher Isaac Bonfils is
• Seated in the Center).
• -Street Demonstrations Against Jews and Zionism.
• -19th Century Iraqi Hanukah Menorah.
• -Ancient Torah Scrolls in The Great Synagogue of Baghdad.
• -The Great Synagogue of Baghdad.
• -The Main Hekhal in The Great Synagogue of Baghdad.
• -The Late Rishon-Letzion Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim.
• -Mordechai Bibi, Chairman of the Organisation.
• -Dr. Aharon Elias.
• -Ezra Meir Lewee.
• -The Late Dr. Selman Darwish.