List of Jews From The Arab World - Iraq

Iraq

• Adiabene people
• Many Tannas and Amoraim, including:
  • Abba Arika, "Rabh", amora
  • Shmuel Yarchina'ah, "Mar Samuel", or Samuel of Nehardea, amora
  • Rav Huna
  • Rav Chisda
  • Abaye, amora
  • Rav Papa, amora
• Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity, Famous singers
  • Rav Ashi (Abana), rav, amora
• Anan ben David, founder of Qara'ism
• Ari Ben-Menashe
• Dodai ben Nahman
• Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, politician
• Ya'qub Bilbul, poet
• Sir Sassoon Eskell, Iraqi statesman and financier
• Naeim Giladi, writer
• Hakham Yosef Chayyim of Baghdad, "Ben Ish Chai"
• Yitzchak Kadouri, rabbi and kabbalist
• Elie Kedourie, historian
• Sami Michael*, Israeli writer
• Shafiq Ades, wealthy businessman
• Samir Naqqash, novelist
• Maurice & Charles Saatchi, advertising executives
• David Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant, and Sassoon family
• Avi Shlaim, Oxford Professor born in Iraq
• Yaakov Chaim Sofer, rabbi
• Dahlia Wasfi, activist
• Ovadia Yosef, rabbi