Saul Silas Fathi, author of History of the Jews and Israel and Full Circle: Escape from Baghdad And the Return, is an Iraqi Jew who spent his childhood and some of his adult life in Baghdad. He will give an overview of the exile to Babylon: 597 BCE., the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple 586 BCE., Jewish life in Babylon and the Middle-East, Cyrus the Great, who frees the Babylonian Jews, 538 BCE., the return to Jerusalem and rebuilding the Second Temple. Jewish life under Islamic rule. Ottoman Empire (1299-1922), The Balfour Declaration: 1917, his life and childhood in Baghdad, Krystallnacht in Baghdad (Farhood) June 1, 1941, Israel War of Independence: 1948, and his escape from Baghdad to Israel.
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