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Farhud
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English
Etymology
From en ar الفَرْهُود.
Proper noun
en historical A pogrom against the Jews in Baghdad, Iraq in 1941.
en 1966 Middle Eastern Studies Hayyim J. Cohen 10.1080/00263206608700059 3 1 2–17 4282184 The Anti‐Jewish Farhūd in Baghdad, 1941 Farhūd denotes a breakdown of law and order in which life and property are in peril. on
en January 22, 2018 w:Al Jazeera Dalia Hatuqa Iraqi-Jewish archive triggers 'traumatic memories' https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/iraqi-jewish-archive-triggers-traumatic-memories-180122153032515.html Those include the Farhud - a 1941 pogrom that claimed the lives of 180 members of the community and ended in mass looting of their property - and the killing of 40 Iraqi Jews in 1968 when the Baath party came to power. https://web.archive.org/web/20200806171844/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/iraqi-jewish-archive-triggers-traumatic-memories-180122153032515.html 6 August 2020