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The “Farhud,” Arabic for pogrom or violent dispossession, gripped Iraq’s 2,600 year-old Jewish community during WW2. Inspired and encouraged by the Nazi regime, Iraqis committed acts of horrific violence for two days against Baghdad’s Jews as British forces watched on.

Rachel teaches how to make the chicken dish called Tbiet, the classic Shabot dinner for the Jews of Iraq, and her own unique addition to the recipe

Sabri Khlaf sing from the songs of the best iraqi violan Sason Abdo

Yair Dalal is an internationally renown musician from Israel. His focus is on preserving music traditions and on creating cross-cultural connection through music. In this video he plays with Alam Khan (sarode) and Jim Santi Owens (tabla). Yair Dalal's musical heritage is the Jewish music of Iraq, where his parents came from.