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The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center was founded in 1973 as a non-profit institution for the purpose of collecting, preserving and commemorating the heritage of Babylonian Jewry. The Center operates a research institute, publishing house, library and archives. The center's Museum of Babylonian Jewry opened to the public in 1988.
The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, a museum documenting the history of the Iraqi Jewish community, was established in Or Yehuda in 1988. [19] The museum, located at Mordechai Ben-Porat Av No. 83, also includes a library (open to the public by appointment only).
Over the years [the Queen of the Night] has indeed grown better and better, and more and more interesting. For me she is a real work of art of the Old Babylonian period." In 2008/9 the relief was included in exhibitions on Babylon at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [44]
The Jewish community in Nehardea established the first Jewish settlement there, continuing to send offerings to the First Temple in Jerusalem, which were transported from Babylon. [16] Nehardea became the capital for the Babylonian exilarch , and there is evidence suggesting that the first exilarch hailed from this community. [ 16 ]
The palace grounds that included the museum were at the ancient building referred to as E-Gig-Par, which included Ennigaldi's living quarters [10] as well as subsidiary buildings. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Ennigaldi's father Nabonidus , an antiquarian and antique restorer, [ 4 ] is known as the first serious archeologist. [ 2 ]
Nehardea or Nehardeah (Imperial Aramaic: נהרדעא, romanized: nəhardəʿā "river of knowledge") was a city from the area called by ancient Jewish sources Babylonia, situated at or near the junction of the Euphrates with the Nahr Malka (the Royal Canal), one of the earliest and most prominent centers of Babylonian Judaism.
A Jewish museum is a museum which focuses upon Jews and may refer seek to explore and share the Jewish experience in a given area. Jewish Museum of Belgium , in Brussels . Notable Jewish museums include:
The Talmudic academies in Babylonia, also known as the Geonic academies, were the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Halakha from roughly 589 to 1038 CE (Hebrew dates: 4349 AM to 4798 AM) [citation needed] in what is called "Babylonia" in Jewish sources, at the time otherwise known as Asōristān (under the Sasanian Empire) or Iraq (under the Muslim caliphate until the 11th ...