MAKE A MEME View Large Image KurdJewwomenRowendez905.jpg Photograph of three Kurdish jewish family members from the the small town of Rowndiz in the Kurdish mountains in northern Iraq taken by a traveling missionary in 1905 The town was described by A M Hamilton The ...
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Keywords: KurdJewwomenRowendez905.jpg Photograph of three Kurdish jewish family members from the the small town of Rowndiz in the Kurdish mountains in northern Iraq taken by a traveling missionary in 1905 The town was described by A M Hamilton The narrative of an Engineer in Iraq 1930's High on the steep and narrow slope and perched thus between two great precipices is the town of upper Rowndiz lower Rowndiz was burned by the Russians in 1915-16 Rowndiz looks out on mountains on all sides Jagged and irregular peaks nearly all of them over eight thousand feet in height snow-capped for six months of the year Some of the Kurdish Jews settled in the new and prosperous town of Qamishli in Syrian Mesopotamia post WW1 facing the ancient town of Nusibis Nusaibin on the Turkish side of the border Qamishli possessed a train station on the Berlin-Baghdad Railway an aerodrome and a Synagogue Today some 75 000 to 100 000 so called Kurdish Jews live in Israel http //mideastimage com/result aspx 1905 Missionary PD-US PD-Iraq Kurdish Jews Jewish people of Iraq
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