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Ras Al-Qarya School, Baghdad, Iraq
The Ras Al Qarya (ראס אל-קריה, مدرسة راس القرية), in Baghdad (בגדד, بغدد), Iraq (עיראק, العراق).
Description
A public primary school for boys active from 1929-1939.1 Located in a mostly a Jewish section of the city in which it was named after, the school employed mostly Jewish teachers despite being a government school.2 Originally named Ras al-Qarya al-Israeliyya, the Iraqi Director General of Education ordered the name changed to Ras al-Qarya al-Rasmiyya despite its presence in such a heavily Jewish neighborhood.3 Shortly afterwards, the school was banned from teaching Hebrew to its pupils.4
Baghdad, Iraq
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Notes
1. Goldstein-Sabbath, S.R. “Jewish Education in Baghdad: Communal Space vs. Public Space.”, 110.
2. Rejwan, Nissim. The Last Jews in Baghdad : Remembering a Lost Homeland, University of Texas Press, 2004.
3. Goldstein-Sabbath, “Jewish Education in Baghdad.”
4. Ibid.
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Goldstein-Sabbath, S.R. “Jewish Education in Baghdad: Communal Space vs. Public Space.”, 110.
Rejwan, Nissim. The Last Jews in Baghdad : Remembering a Lost Homeland, University of Texas Press, 2004.