Today is the anniversary of the Farhud. I’m reminded by a post at Jeff’s place of one I put up two years ago, drawing on an article in the Jewish Chronicle by Sarah Ehrlich. But Jeff’s post is a good place to go to read about what was ‘the beginning of the end of thousands of years of Jewish life’ in Iraq. As he also tells us, Jews in the Arab world ‘numbered around 800,000 in 1948 and are now almost completely gone, with only tiny remnants left in a few countries and none at all in others’.