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Artist Unknown
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
ca. 1850
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[May] your mornings [be] blessed,
[May] your life [be] long,
[May] your enemies [be] shrouded, dead,
[May] your [hot] breakfasts [be] poured, cooled.
Contributor:
The Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan
Places:
Zakho, Ottoman Empire
(Zakho, Iraq)
Date:
17th Century
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He remembers well how for the first time in his life he tried to cross the big street in Baghdad. With one hand his mother held onto him and with the other she held her long and wide cape, looked…
Contributor:
Shalom Darwish
Places:
Baghdad, Iraq
Date:
1948
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.
—Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a…
Contributor:
Meir Basri
Places:
Baghdad, Iraq
Date:
1955
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Return to your ancient past
Aid your sister with education and culture
And people of Israel will once more be a nation.
Awake, daughter of Babylon, mother of knowledge
Take up in your hand the pen…
Contributor:
Salim Yitshak Nissim
Places:
Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1921
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Yeshurun sings, when in him it sees a delicate beauty in the bloom of her youth
playing the lyre in her bosom’s embrace, her song gladdening the sorrowful heart.
A charming doe [even] without kohl…
Contributor:
David Saliman Tsemah
Places:
Baghdad, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1933
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Arise, shine, for thy light is come,
Shake thyself from the dust
Unlock the lock on your neck
Be saved from your enemy.
Awaken, get out of thy exile
Rise up from your degradation
Wake up from your…
Contributor:
Aharon Sason
Places:
Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1929
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Jeshurun sings when they see him
Tender beauty in her youth
She plays and her violin is on her bosom
And its singing brings gladness to the heart of the gloomy
An unadorned graceful gazelle
Embellish…
Contributor:
David Saliman Tsemah
Places:
Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1932
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The year 5573 (1813) was a leap year (in the Jewish calendar). On the twenty-fourth of Nisan, the Sabbath right after Passover, after midday, the skies became overcast and…
Contributor:
Jonah ben Gabriel
Places:
Arbil, Ottoman Empire
(Erbil, Iraq)
Date:
ca. 1843
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Middle Bronze Age