Edited by: Prof. Shmuel Moreh,
Vol. I, Tel-Aviv, Center for the Heritage of Iraqi Jewry, 1981
17x23 cm, 227 p. (Hebrew).

This volume is adorned by a contribution from Professor Shmuel Dov Goiten, who introduces the text of a letter written in the year 1176 by a merchant on a pilgrimage to the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel near Baghdad. This is followed by an instructive short survey, by Eliezer Bashan, of reports written by European travellers from the 16th-19th centuries on the Jews of Iraq and Kurdistan.
The volume includes two more sections, one on Language and one on Literature, with three contributions dealing with the spoken Arabic of Iraqi Jews. But the most interesting and wide-ranging of the sections, is the one devoted to literature and culture, which includes contributions on subjects ranging from 12th century Jewish poets in Iraq (J. Tobi) and eight versions of an Iraqi-Jewish lullaby (Y. Avishur) to a short paper on "the evil eye among the Jews of Baghdad" (M. Mikhaeli), and some notes on the history of Jewish Women's costumes in Baghdad (A. Mueller-Lanzet).