On Tuesday, we’re screening The Last Jews of Baghdad: End of an Exile, Beginning of a Journey at Makor. The Iraqi Jewish community had roots dating back to biblical times (The rivers of Babylon? Iraqi.) and numbered 160,000 in 1948. Anti-Jewish riots at the time of Israel’s founding forced many Jews to flee the country and tens of thousands more fled for political reasons after Saddam Hussein came to power. Now Iraq has only 22 Jews remaining, mostly in Kurdistan.

The Jerusalem Post wrote about Baghdad’s last Jews and Iraqi Jewish emigres are on the internet. Interested in their culture? Here’s something on Iraqi Jewish food and Iraqi Jewish music.