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Nerwa, Iraqi-Kurdistan
The village of Nerwa (Narwah, נירוה, נירוא, نيروه), in Iraqi-Kurdistan.
Description
According to a former resident, the village did not have a synagogue in her time but there was a cemetery.
The former residents account differs from the account of Nerwa given in Mordechai Yonah's encyclopedia in terms of the size of the village and the residents.
Nerwa , Iraq
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Sources
Interview with S. Kara.
See also, the Encyclopedia of Kurdish Jews (Hebrew) by Mordechai Yonah, page 156, and Kurdish Jewish Communities (Hebrew) by Avraham ben Yaakov, page 63.