Mosul Iraq -- Match Historical Pictures to Today's Headlines

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Mosul Iraq -- Match Historical Pictures to Today's Headlines Posted: 13 Jun 2014 Jews of Mosul (Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection,  California Museum of Photography at UCR) Jihadi forces overran Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, this week. Analysts explain Mosul's significance as the center of Iraq's oil-rich areas, the gateway for the Sunni radicals to attack Baghdad, and a debacle for the U.S.-supported Iraqi army.  But Mosul also has an ancient history.  It was the Biblical city of Nineveh, so large that the Book of Jonah describes it as a "great city of three days "Jewish Cobblers Repairing Shoes for Arabs, near  Mosul, Mesopotamia" (Iraq) (Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock, University of  California, Riverside) journey in breadth."  The Assyrian King Sennacherib built a massive palace there on the banks of the Tigris River. We present pictures of Mosul 80 years ago and of Jews of Mosul  approximately 100 years ago. Read here a 2007 account of a Jewish chaplain from the US Army's 101st Airborne who discovered the remnants of Mosul's Jewish community. Mosul, Iraq, 1932 (Library of Congress) Mosul and the Tigris in the background, 1932 (Library of Congress) Sennacherib's castle, Mosul, Iraq, 1932 (Library of Congress) See also here