Méir-Glitzenstein, Esther

Le Farhoud : pogrom à Bagdad - 2016.


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The Farhud constitutes a foundational event in the historical memory of the Jews of Iraq. Following a troubled period in the 1930s, the pogrom, which was the largest pogrom on Arab soil of the 20th century, sealed the divorce between the Jews and the nation where they had been among the most longstanding inhabitants.