Journal of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

No.4, April 1990

• From the Chairman: Mordechai Ben-Porat
• From the Editor: Prof. Yitzhak Avishur
• I. OPENING OF CENTER AND MUSEUM
  • -Address by the President of the State of Israel: Chaim Herzog
  • -Address by Speaker of the Knesset: Shlomo Hillel
  • -Address by Deputy Premier and Minister of Education and Culture: Yitzhak Navon
  • -Address by Mayor of Or-Yehuda: Adv. Yitzhak Buchobza
  • -Prof. Yitzhak Avishur: The Establishment of the Babylonian Jewry Museum.
  • -Dr. Zvi Yehuda: The History of Jews of Babylon in the Modern Era - Research and Application at the Museum
  • -Dr. Olga Goldberg: Jewelry-Making by the Jews of Iraq
• II. LITERATURE AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • -Prof. David Semah: The "Iraqi" Novel of Samir Naqqash
  • -Prof. Yitzhak Avishur: A Folktale: "The Holy One Blessed Be He Revealed the Blood of the Jewish Santur Player"
  • -Dr. David Kazzaz: Self-Identity of the Iraqi Jews
  • -Salman Dabbi: The Shafiq Adas Affair
• III. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE CENTER
  • -Dr. Avraham Elam-Amzalag: The Musical Tradition of the Jews of Babylon
  • -Dr. Haya Bar-Yitzhak: On Folktales of the Jews of Iraq
• IV. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
  • -Prof. Yehuda Don: Progress Report on Research on "Social and Economic Integration of Jews from Iraq in Israel"
  • -Prof. Jacob Mansour: The Jewish Baghdadi Dialect
• V. EVENTS AT THE CENTER
  • -David Binyamin:Events at the Center 1989-1990
  • -Lecture series: Prof. Yitzhak Avishur - The Literature of the Jews of Iraq; Dr.Zvi Yehuda - The History of the Hagana (Shura) in Iraq
• VI. EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM
  • -Prof. Yitzhak Avishur, Idit Sharoni: Hannuka - Lamps and Festivals among The Jews of Babylon
  • -Ofir Hacham: From the Visitors' Book at the Museum
  • -Dr. Zvi Yehuda: The Restoration of the Goldsmith's Shop
• VII. EVENTS IN THE IRAQI DIASPORA
  • -Jack Balas: The Jewish Community of Singapore
  • -From the Press
  • -Mordechai Ben-Porat, Richard Chesnoff:
  • Latest Information from Baghdad
• VIII. DOCUMENTATION PROJECT AT THE CENTER
  • -Prof. Yitzhak Avishur: Documentation Project on the Heritage of Babylonian Jewry
  • -Dr. Zvi Yehuda: Documentation of the History and Material Culture of Iraqi Jewry
  • -Synagogues and Tombs of Holy Men in Babylon
  • -Documentation of the Selihot Prayers
• IX. LITERARY CRITICISM
  • -Nissim Rejwan: Iraq-Jewish Novel
  • -Eliahu Khazoum: All Quiet in the Clinic
• X. IN MEMORIAM
  • -Naim Twaina: The Centor Shlomo Muallem
  • -Naim Twaina: Muhammad Al-Qubbanchi

• -Exhibition of Hanuka Lamps in the Museum.
• -The Opening of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center and Museum.
• -Knesset Speaker's Prize for Quality of Life Is Given to the Center.
• -Relif of the Lachish Exile.
• -Reconstruction of the Yeshiva in the Geonim Period.
• -Reconstruction of the Great Synagogue.
• -The Ohel Rachel Synagogue at Shanghai.
• -Reconstruction Baghdadi Side-Street.
• -The Baghdadi Sentur.
• -Dr. David Kazzaz.
• -The Hakhamim of Baghdad.
• -Shafiq Adas Being Led to His Trial.
• -Mr. David Nathan.
• -Iraqi Immigrants en Route for Israel.
• -Prof. Jacob Mansour.
• -Sassoon Abed.
• -Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir Visiting the Museum.
• -The Donor Mr. Hezkel Kassab at the Goldsmith Shop's Entrance.
• -Visiting Group from Motreal, Canada.
• -Magen Aboth Synagogue, Singapore.
• -Meir Twayg Synagogue, 1989.
• -Documentation Project at the Center.
• -Group of Researchers Conducting Documentation.
• -The Cantors and Players in Preformance.
• -Former Chief Rabbi Ovadya Yosef.
• -The Lecturers at the Conference.
• -The Y. Abu-Zwili Ensemble in Preformance.
• -The Cantors Singing.
• -Lecture at the Study Day.
• -The Writer Shalom Darwish.
• -The Late Cantor Shlomo Muallem.
• -The Late Muhammad al-Qubbanchi.
• -The Ensemble Representing Iraq at the Cairo Congres