Posted: 13 Jun 2014
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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
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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.
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