Les Juifs de Kirkouk

Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, was home to an ancient Jewish community inscribed in the long history of Mesopotamian Judaism. Its members, speaking Arabic and, in part, Neo-Aramaic dialects, were merchants and artisans organized around their synagogues. The region experienced significant development in the twentieth century linked to oil exploitation. After the creation of the State of Israel and the exodus of Iraqi Jews in the early 1950s, the Kirkuk community emigrated almost entirely, toward Israel and the diaspora issuing from Iraqi Judaism.

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来源与资源

• Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan

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