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Dartu (Dara Too, דרתו, دارا توو), Iraqi-Kurdistan
The village of Dartu (Dara Too, Dartwah, دارتوه, דרתו, دارا توو) in Iraqi-Kurdistan.
Description
Dartu is an agricultural village. Before 1951, it had about 50 houses, 4 of which were Jewish. These Jewish families did not maintain a synagogue for daily or weekly prayers, but on the high holidays they would join Jews in other nearby villages to form a minyan. The cemetery was in a nearby valley.
The Jews in Dartu were farmers like everyone else.
Dartu, Iraq
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Sources
Interview with B. & D. Levy.
For more on Dartu, see the Encyclopedia of of Kurdish Jews (Hebrew) by Mordechai Yonah p. 110.