Raiders of the Lost Archive: Don’t return the rescued written treasures of Iraqi Jews to Baghdad

By Sara Y. Aharon In 2003, a team of 16 American soldiers in Baghdad stumbled upon a lost treasure trove of thousands of documents belonging to Iraq’s Jewish community. These rare materials, thought to have been stored originally in synagogues and private Jewish homes, were sitting in a moldy, flooded basement of the muhkabarat, Saddam [...]