Jewish Schools in Baghdad 1832-1974

Picture Album

Editor: Dr. Zvi Yehuda
Or-Yehuda, The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, 1996
22.5x30cm., 106 p. (Hebrew and English). $30

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Secondary Schools in Baghdad

Elementary Schools in Baghdad

Hebrew Education in Baghdad

List of Jewish Schools in Baghdad

Sources

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The following comment on the book appeared in:
Sefarad, the Sephardic Newsletter (volume 7, No. 11, Nov. 98)
Editor: Yitzchak Kerem, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

This impressive pictorial book conveys the cultural wealth of the Baghdadi Jewish
Community, its educational modernization process, how modern schools like the
Alliance Israelite Universelle existed side by side with popular Zionist schools, and
foreign influences on Iraqi Jewish education wether it be Zionist Ashkenazic female
teachers, or French education. In the book one sees relatively early entrances of
modern European dress, female education, and sports.