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Meaning of Farhud | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A pogrom against the Jews in Baghdad, Iraq in 1941.

historical

Examples

“Farhūd denotes a breakdown of law and order in which life and property are in peril.”
“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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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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