Remembering Baghdad – The Lectures

Prof Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University “God’s Gift”: Baghdad throughout History

Prof. Ofra Bengio, Tel Aviv University Between Iraq and Kurdistan: Jews in a Vanished World

Prof. Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago Baghdad: A City that Never Sleeps

Prof. Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Zvi Zohar, Bar-Ilan University Conservative Appearance, Innovative Ruling: Halacha among Baghdad’s Chief Rabbis in Recent Generations

Osnat Trabelsi, creative producer How Can We Forget Baghdad?! Accompanied by a screening of the film Forgetting Baghdad

Dr. Almog Behar, Polonsky Academy Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: My Literature / The Literature of Baghdadi Jew.

Prof. Shalom Sabar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Religious World of the Baghdadi Jews and Its Expression in Artifacts, Customs, and Rituals

Prof. Edwin Seroussi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Music of the Baghdadi Jews

Roundtable Discussion: The Baghdadi Jews’ Departure from Iraq: The Farhoud, Integration, Assimilation, Zionism Chair: Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Prof. Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev