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From Baghdad to Montreal by Alan H. Rose

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FROM BAGHDAD TO MONTREALBy ALAN H. ROSEALAN H. ROSE — Secretary, Canada Israel Development Ltd.; contributor to various journals on Middle East problems and Canada-Israel investment relations. Born and educated in United Kingdom, he is married to a member of the Montreal Iraqi Jewish Community.JAN SMUTS once made the perceptive observation "that all peoples are rooted in space, the Jewish people alone are rooted in time." With the exception of the Yemenites, there is no community more "rooted in time" than Iraqi Jewry. From the time of Babylon to the beginning of its disintegration in 1948, this historic community, which had existed for more than two thousand years on the banks of the Tigris, kept alive a vibrant Judaism. If the term "Sephardi" is used in the broad sense of non-Ashkenazi rather than its precise sense, the Jews of Iraq have a continuous history as a community virtually untouched by intermarriage or the intermingling of social customs with their Moslem neighbours; and therefore regard themselves as the Sephardim par excellence. Unlike the Jews of Europe, they did not intermarry, nor, indeed were theyRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
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