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
Press
- Press release 2015 http://www.archives.gov/kansas-city/press/2015/15-16.html
- Press release 2014 http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2014/nr14-07.html
- See incredible “before and after” conservation treatment photos
www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/iraqi-jewish-archive/images.html
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.)