New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq - by Orit Bashkin

This pioneering study traces the social, cultural, and political lives of Iraqi Jews from the late Ottoman era through the mid-20th century, portraying their deep integration into Baghdad's cosmopolitan fabric as educators, merchants, and intellectuals. Bashkin highlights periods of prosperity and shared Iraqi patriotism before nationalism, anti-Semitism, and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War triggered their mass exodus, offering a nuanced counter-narrative to assumptions of perennial Arab-Jewish strife.