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Jihadi forces overran Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, this week. Analysts explain Mosul's significance as the center of Iraq's oil-rich areas, the gateway for the Sunni radicals to attack Baghdad, and a debacle for the U.S.-supported Iraqi army.
But Mosul also has an ancient history. It was the Biblical city of Nineveh, so large that the Book of Jonah describes it as a "great city of three days "Jewish Cobblers Repairing Shoes for Arabs, near Mosul, Mesopotamia" (Iraq) (Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside) journey in breadth."
We present pictures of Mosul 80 years ago and of Jews of Mosul approximately 100 years ago.
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Mosul Iraq -- Match Historical Pictures to Today's Headlines
Jihadi forces overran Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, this week. Analysts explain Mosul's significance as the center of Iraq's oil-rich areas, the gateway for the Sunni radicals to attack Baghdad, and a debacle for the U.S.-supported Iraqi army.
But Mosul also has an ancient history. It was the Biblical city of Nineveh, so large that the Book of Jonah describes it as a "great city of three days
"Jewish Cobblers Repairing Shoes for Arabs, near
Mosul, Mesopotamia" (Iraq) (Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection,
California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock, University of
California, Riverside)
journey in breadth."
We present pictures of Mosul 80 years ago and of Jews of Mosul approximately 100 years ago.
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Read here a 2007 account of a Jewish chaplain from the US Army's 101st Airborne who discovered the remnants of Mosul's Jewish community.
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