Short: The Last "Rabbi" of Baghdad - A Thanksgiving Special
Israel Story
Israel Story
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🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Jews have been in Iraq for more than two-and-a-half millennia. Today, the entire Jewish community of Baghdad can fit in a single car. In this special Thanksgiving bonus, we bring you a conversation between Mishy Harman and Emad Levy, the last "rabbi" of Baghdad.
It's a busy week. Many of you will be traveling, and those of you staying put will probably be cooking turkeys and preparing cranberry sauce. And while you are doing all that, we wanted to keep you company.
With the kind of storytelling we do, most of our interviews end up on the proverbial "editing room floor." And we're often sorry about that, since we'd like you to hear them too. So today, in a new experiment for us, we bring you an edited version of an interview we recently recorded. Want to know what the last "rabbi" of Baghdad is thankful for? Listen and find out.
Zev Levi edited this special. The end song, "Tahdini" is by Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis.
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| 1:39.0 | Hey guys, it's me she. We know that many of you will be traveling for the holiday this week, or if you're staying |
| 1:45.4 | put this year, maybe cooking and getting ready to host. |
| 1:49.7 | So as you're doing all that, we wanted to keep you company and make sure you had something to listen to. |
| 1:55.5 | You know, we work on each one of our episodes for months, sometimes even years, and we interview |
| 2:02.0 | many, many people, most of whom for all kinds of reasons don't end up making it |
| 2:07.9 | into the final cut. And often we're sorry about that, since we'd like you to hear their voices and their stories, too. |
| 2:16.9 | So today, as a little Thanksgiving bonus, we're going to air an edited version of an interview |
| 2:22.4 | we didn't end up using in our most recent episode, |
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