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Will the Iraqi Jewish archive be off-limits to Jews?

The restored Iraqi Jewish archive may soon leave the United States for Baghdad, making this piece of Jewish heritage almost inaccessible to Jews.

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A photo from the Iraqi Jewish Archives shows the wedding of an Iraqi couple in 1960. — Maurice Shohet/National Archives

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