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One man’s quest to save the Jewish Iraqi language
On Friday mornings in a class on the heritage of Babylonian Jewry, Oded Amit has taught a small group of Israelis to speak Jewish Iraqi, the language of his ancestors.
Amit, 70, was born and raised in Baghdad, and Jewish Iraqi was the language in which his mother raised him.
“It’s a beautiful…