By the Rivers of Babylon https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/11/by-the-rivers-of-babylon/

November 12, 2013 | Edward Rothstein
About the author: Edward Rothstein is Critic at Large at the Wall Street Journal. His essays in Mosaic include “The Problem with Jewish Museums” and “Jerusalem Syndrome at the Met.”

Artifacts now on display at the National Archives in Washington illustrate the past greatness of Iraq’s Jewish community and the parlous state to which it had been reduced by Saddam’s time.

Read more on New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/arts/design/iraqi-jewish-documents-at-the-national-archives.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0