Farhud
English
Etymology
Arabic الفَرْهُود (al-farhūd)
Proper noun
Farhud
- (historical) A pogrom against the Jews in Baghdad, Iraq in 1941.
- [1966, Hayyim J. Cohen, “The Anti‐Jewish Farhūd in Baghdad, 1941”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 3, number 1, DOI:, JSTOR 4282184, pages 2-17:
- Farhūd denotes a breakdown of law and order in which life and property are in peril.]
- 2018 January 22, Dalia Hatuqa, “Iraqi-Jewish archive triggers 'traumatic memories'”, in Al Jazeera:
- Those include the Farhud - a 1941 pogrom that claimed the lives of 180 members of the community and ended in mass looting of their property - and the killing of 40 Iraqi Jews in 1968 when the Baath party came to power.
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