Iraq rejects offer for half of Jewish Archives
Iraq has rejected a U.S. offer to receive half of the
country's Jewish Archives, which were removed from Iraq in 2003 following the
U.S. launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The refusal appeared last month in the Iraqi newspaper
al-Sabah, according to the Press TV news service.
The archives, which were discovered in the flooded
basement of Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad, include Torah scrolls,
and Jewish law and children’s books.
Seventy percent of the collection consists of Hebrew-language documents
and 25 percent is in Arabic. The rest of the documents are written in other
languages.
Iraq was home to a large Jewish community prior to 1948
before most Iraqi Jews immigrated to Israel.
Last month, Iraq said it would end archaeological
cooperation with the United States until the archives are returned.
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