Baghdadi Jews also known as Iraqi Jews are Jewish emigrants from Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq some of whom were merchant traders settled on trade routes and some of whom fled religious persecution and formed immigrant communities in their new homelands. Baghdad and Iraq in general used to have one of the largest if not the largest Jewish community in the Middle East and Central Asia and these new immigrant communities also included Jews as part of the Persian and Mughal courtiers.
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