00:00in a vibrant Baghdad district Iraqi laborers work tirelessly to repair a
00:08centuries-old shrine of a revered Rebbe in an effort to revive Iraq's Jewish
00:14heritage that has long faded just a few months ago the tomb of Rebbe as a gun
00:25wasn't the survey filled with piles of carpet today layers of marble tiles
00:31cover the once small grave the Jewish community in Iraq was once one of the
00:39largest in the Middle East but now it has twindled to just dozens far alien a
00:46battle with the
00:50first
00:50now
00:51I heard a
00:54war
00:55who wanted to die within four of the Jewish species
00:58see
00:59that that was a time
01:01has passed
01:02and
01:03it is
01:05and the
01:05energy
01:07and what year
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01:10The Jewish community itself is funding the shrine's restoration at an estimated cost of $1.50,000.
01:33The Jewish community has succeeded in helping some of the citizens of the United States.
01:57It is a great thing to notice that it is created and created all these religious interests
02:07which are a cultural heritage for the Iraqi country.
02:11This is the most important thing.
02:14Rabbi Isaac Gaon's name was mentioned in the 10th century by another Rabbi
02:20who told a tale that never appeared elsewhere
02:23according to Professor Simcha Grosh from University of Pennsylvania.
02:28In the 10th century, minorities, Christians, Jewish and Zoroastrians
02:34began to tell stories of how they greeted Muslim conquerors.
02:38At that same time, Jewish shrines started to appear even though Jewish roots in Iraq date back some 2,600 years ago.
02:48According to biblical tradition, a Jewish arrived in Iraq in 586 BC as prisoners of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II
02:59after he destroyed Solomon's temple in Jerusalem.
03:03In Iraq, they wrote the Babylonian Talmud.
03:07Thousands of years later, in Ottoman-ruled Baghdad, Jewish made up 40% of the population.
03:15A turning point was the 1941 Pogorom in Baghdad when more than 100 Jewish were killed.
03:24Like other Jewish communities in the Arab region, their history has changed since the Palestinian Negba and Israel's creation in 1948.
03:34Soon afterwards, almost all of Iraq's 135,000 Jewish went into exile.
03:41Baghdad today has one synagogue left, but it has no rabbis.
03:47And many houses that once belonged to Jewish are abandoned.
03:52Decades of conflict and instability, Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the 2003 US-led invasion and the ensuing violence completed the community's erosion.
04:03Some who stayed on converted to other religions or do not reveal their faith.
04:09Decades ago, people would come to pray and light candles, believing in the Rebbe's healing powers.
04:16Decades of conflict and stability and all of its Foi milyam inârissing.
04:17They enjoyed their work.
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