Traveling Exhibit

COVID

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the traveling exhibit for the Iraqi Jewish Archive has been suspended.

Early efforts to dry the books and documents outdoors

Past Exhibits

  • Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, TX - May 11, 2018 - September 3, 2018
  • William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta, VA - January 28, 2018 - April 29, 2018
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland, October 15, 2017 - January 15, 2018
  • Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, December 3, 2015 - March 6, 2016
  • Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, September 4 - November 15, 2015
  • National Archives at Kansas City, June 18 - August 18, 2015
  • Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery, National Archives, Washington, DC, USA November 8, 2013 - January 5, 2014
  • Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust February 4- May 18, 2014

Past Public Events

Corine Wegener - Saving the Iraqi Jewish Archive

A lecture at the National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Mo. Presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in Partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City and the National World War I Museum.  View broadcast of this event


Dr. Mark R. Cohen - History and Memory: The Jews of Iraq

A lecture at the National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Mo. Presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in Partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City and the National World War I Museum. View broadcast of this event


Dr. Orit Bashkin - New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

A lecture at the National World War I Museum Kansas City, Mo. Presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in Partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City and the National World War I Museum. View broadcast of this event


Panel Discussion: The IJA Project Team

Join the team working on the Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Project for a discussion about their daily work to preserve and make available the documents from this collection. View broadcast of this event


Panel Discussion: Discovery and Recovery: Eyewitness Accounts

Tuesday, December 5th at 7PM William G. McGowan Theater, Archives I View broadcast of this event


Orit Bashkin: New Babylonians

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 book lecture and signing. Orit Bashkin: New Babylonians. View broadcast of this event


Film Screening

Thursday, November 21, 2013 at Noon
William G. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Washington, DC
Film screening: Baghdad Twist (2007; 33 mins.) and Baklava and the Meaning of Life (1999; 23 mins.)