Is your name on this list? Your Jewish roots might be in the Middle East
None of these sources are comprehensive. Your family was more likely to be mentioned somewhere, for example, if you donated money or if you sent your kids to Jewish schools.
A scanned page of the list of Baghdadi Jewish men exempt from Ottoman military service published by Rabbi Shlomo Bekhor Husin in 1892 and archived at the National Libary of Israel in Jerusalem(photo credit: JACOB ROSEN-KOENIGSBUCH)ByASAF SHALEV/JTA
