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The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland by Nissim Rejwan textbook awardwinning essayist and cultural commentatorOnce upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christiansall native born Iraqisintermingled, speaking virtually the same colloquial Arabic and sharing a common sense of national identity. And then, almost overnight it