Region: Irak (plaine de Ninive)
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A village on the Nineveh plain, Alqosh houses the shrine of the prophet Nahum, a pilgrimage site for Iraqi Jews. Its Aramaic-speaking community, documented since the Middle Ages, remained active until the twentieth century.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Alqosh give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
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