A Journal for Research in the History and Culture of Babylonian Jewry, No.2, Spring 1998

Editor: Dr. Zvi Yehuda
Or-Yehuda, The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
47p.(English)+177p.(Hebrew).$20

CONTENTS

ENGLISH SECTION

Yitzhak Avishur Translation to the Early Prophets into Judaeo-Arabic from North Iraq

Summaries of the Hebrew Section

HEBREW SECTION

Lev Hakak About Victoria by Sami Michael
Zvi Yehuda On the History of the Jews of Iraq in the 18th Century: A Blood Libel of Jews Against Christians in Basra
Olga Goldberg and Bat-Sheva Goldman-Ida The Goldsmiths's Art of the Jews of Baghdad
Shaul Regev Rabbi Yosef Hayim:His Attitude to Eretez Yisrael in Theory and Practice
Moshe Gat The Emigration of the Iraqi Jews:Expulsion, Rescue, or Solving a Domestic Problem?
Moshe Piamenta Interpretation of the Syntax in the Arabic Spoken by the Jews of Baghdad
Shmuel Moreh The Library Work of Lev Hakak
Shaul Sehayik Teachers from Palestine in Iraq, 1925-1935: A Focus for Nationalist Hebrew Education
Abraham Ben-Yaacob A New Source for the Life of Rabbi Eliahu Son of Rabbi Moshe Hayim of Baghdad
Yaacov Zamir Books Printed in Jewish Printing Houses in Baghdad that Are Not Mentioned by Avraham Yaari

Book Reviews
Jacob Mansour Christian Arabic of Baghdad