The cultural and social impact of the Jews in Iraq during the Ottoman era 1517-1917 AD
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Jewish education in Iraq during the Ottoman era was religious. They have schools such as Al-Midrash, a university school for boys; al-bayan School for girls, Rafaqat Nuriel, Rachel Shamoun, co-education; Al Waten, Harun Saleh Hadi, in Baghdad and Mosul have eight schools, and Al Basra has three schools. They had a role in the movement of authorship, translation and literature. Among them were intellectuals who practiced writing, journalism, politics, economics, literature, art, music and singing in Iraq, using Arabic instead of Aramaic and Hebrew, such as Salim Ishaq and others. In the cinema and theatre, they showed the first film in 1909 AD in Dar Al-Shifa in the Karkh region. They have many cinemas in Iraqi cities, and they affect music, such as Saleh Al-Kuwaiti, who composed most of the songs in Salima Pasha and Zakia George, and others, as it became clear that most of them were involved in the establishment of cabarets in Baghdad. In addition, in the agricultural, industrial and commercial economies and in most fields in Iraq until 1917AD.