Journal of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

No.6, March 1993

• -From the Chairman: Mordechai Ben-Porat
• -From the Editor: Dr. Zvi Yehuda
• I. THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR RESEARCH ON BABYLONIAN JEWRY
  • -Report from the Congress
  • -Address by the Chairman - Mordechai Ben-Porat
  • -Address by the President of the State of Israel - Haim Herzog
  • -Prof. Ernest Krausz - Educational Achievements of Jews of Iraqi Origin in
  • Israel
  • -Prof. Heskel M. Haddad - The Contribution of the Jews to Medicine in Iraq
• II. IRAQI JEWS IN THE DIASPORA
  • -Percy Sassoon Gourgey - Iraqi Jews in India in the Twentieth Century
  • -Galia N.Ben-Mordechai - The Musical Culture of Iraqi Jewry Spans the Globe
  • -Hadasa Ronen-Ofri - Teachings that Come Alive
• III. IRAQI JEWS IN ISRAEL
  • -Isaac Aviezer - Naharayim Choir
• IV. NEW EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUM
  • -Dr. Zvi Yehuda - Silversmith's Shop in the Lane - Design and Research
  • -Exhibit: "Chanukah as a Jewish Custom in Babylonia"
  • -Idit Sharoni-Pinhas - The Chanukah Menorah in Baghdad in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• V. EVENTS AT THE CENTER
  • -David Binyamin - From the Director's Notebook
  • -Dr. Zvi Yehuda - Research Activity at the Center
• VI. RECOLLECTIONS
  • -Salman Dabbi - Babylonian Jews Have Lost Their Citizenship but not the Confidnece of the Muslims
  • -Bat-Sheva Ben-Yaacov - Return to Iraq
• VII. BOOK REVIEWS
  • -Dr. Esther Meir - New Research on Babylonian Jewry
  • -"Hay Hiyya El-Qissa" - Collected Stories
  • -Dr. Zvi Yehuda - Modernization and Westernization
• VIII. IN MEMORIAM
  • -Davide Sala (Salman)

• -Kidush Cup from Baghdad.
• -At the Opening of the Congress: Knesset Nember Shlomo Hillel, Ramat Gan Mayor Zvi Bar, and Mordechai Ben-Porat.
• -Cheif Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Knesset Member Raanan Cohen, and Mordechai Ben-Porat.
• -Reception in the Office of Knesset Speaker Dov Shilansky: Prof. Shmuel
• Moreh, Prof. Lev Hakak, and Mordechai Ben-Porat.
• -President of Israel Haim Herzog, Oved Ben-Ozair, and Mordechai Ben-Porat.
• -The Audience in the Cinerama Auditorium.
• -Graduates of the Royal College of Medicine, Baghdad 1937.
• -The Magen David Synagogue, Calcutta.
• -Chalghi Baghdad, 1929.
• -Chesed-El Synagogue in Singapore.
• -Naharayim Choir.
• -Sassoon Abada and Dr. Zvi Yehuda.
• -Hanna Kazzaz and the Dallal Family at the Enterance of the Silversmith's Shop.
• -Shaul Ovadia and Yehuda Sehayik at the Opening of the Chanukah Exhibit.
• -Chanukah Menorah from Early Nineteenth Century.
• -Visit of Trustees from the Weizmann Institute.
• -Visit of Minister Arieh Deri.
• -At the Annual Donors' Party.
• -Minister Arik Sharon on a Visit to the Museum.
• -Mr. George Elias from Manchester Openend the Ahi'ever Exhibition.
• -Jews in Iraqi Army, 1940.
• -I. Bakal Outside Her House in Baghdad.