'Satan at the door' - a scene from the Farhud by artist Nissim ZalayetteNothing convinced the ancient Jewish community of Iraq to emigrate en masse to Israel more than the terrible events of 1 - 2 June 1941 known as The Farhud. Philip Mendes wrote this review of Al-Farhud: The 1941 Pogrom in Iraq* edited by Shmuel Moreh and Zvi Yehuda for the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies ( Vol.24, 2010, pp.176-179):
