Lecture
Lyn Julius
Thursday 25.06.2026
Lyn Julius
The 85th Anniversary of the Farhud Massacre in Baghdad
Thursday 25.06.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 25 June at 5:00pm (UK).
Summary
Eighty-five years have passed since the massacre which shattered the Iraqi-Jewish community in Iraq in the wake of a pro-Nazi coup: two days in June 1941 of looting, murder, and mutilation. This was the Farhud—Arabic for “forced dispossession.” Within ten years, most of the 2,600-year-old Jewish community of Iraq had fled. Why is the Farhud significant? What were its causes and consequences?
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (www.harif.org). Lyn blogs daily at Point of No Return. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Jewish News, and Jerusalem Post. She has a regular column in the Times of Israel and JNS News. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight has been translated in to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic, and a Hebrew version is in progress. Lyn’s latest book Cast Out, a long-form essay is available from Jewish Quarterly.