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The Jewish population has grown so rapidly that by 1884, there were 30,000 Jews in Baghdad and by 1900, 50,000, comprising over a quarter of the city's total population. Large-scale Jewish immigration from Kurdistan to Baghdad continued throughout this period.
The Meir Taweig Synagogue Former Jewish quarter of Shorjah. Baghdad had the highest concentration of the Iraqi Jewish population. Before the persecution, the city was home to 60 synagogues, schools, hospitals, and health clinics, which were owned by Jews. The number of functioning synagogues decreased as the Jewish population dwindled.
By that time, Baghdad still had the highest Jewish population in Iraq, like before the persecution. Around five synagogues and two Jewish schools remained in operation. The government eased on movement of the Jews and the Jews began to move abroad, resulting further Jewish decline. Iraq's Chief Rabbi lived in Baghdad, until his death in 1971.
As the Second World War saw most of the Baghdadi Jews of Burma, as well as individual families from across Asia, flee from the Japanese Occupation of Burma the Jewish population of Calcutta, the heart of the Baghdadi network, swelled with refugees to over 5,000 strong. [40] A small number of Jews fled the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Baghdad for Bombay.
The Arabian Peninsula.. Jews in the Arabian Peninsula dates back to Biblical times. The Arabian Peninsula is defined as including the present-day countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (a federation of seven Sheikhdoms: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain) and Yemen politically and parts of Iraq and Jordan ...
By 1948, their population numbered around 150,000 to 450,000, constituting approximately 3% of Iraq's total population. Following the establishment of Israel in 1948, Jews in Iraq faced persecution, as was the case in much of the Arab and Muslim world.
Iraq was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities of the Middle East. During the Ottoman period, the Jews were part of society in Iraq. Iraq's first finance minister was Sassoon Eskell, an Iraqi Jew from Baghdad. [74] Almost all Iraqi Jews were transferred to Israel in the early 1950s in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah and the Israeli bombing. [74]
All data below, are from the Berman Jewish DataBank at Stanford University in the World Jewish Population (2020) report coordinated by Sergio DellaPergola at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Jewish DataBank figures are primarily based on national censuses combined with trend analysis.