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Analysis of Jewish Behavior in Piramerd’s thought from Religious and Moral Perspectives
Omer Mohammed Saeed, Amin Hamaradha M. Amin
This research is an analytical study of one of the well-known poet of Kurdish literature, Piramerd’s poetry and maxims. In which his moral, religious, and critical perspectives toward the Jewish nation are revealed. In this research, the poet’s view towards Jewish behavior with humanity and their attitude patterns from moral and religious standpoints are discussed and analyzed. Piramerd, by relying on his Islamic and religious knowledge, has criticized certain behaviors and attitudes specific to this nation. Characteristics, which in his opinion, have hindered proper co-existence with other nations. Furthermore, the content of “yahudi morality” is discussed from historical, religious, and moral viewpoints. Additionally, the Jewish nation, because of geographical and cultural dispersion, has been recognized as possessing similar behavioral characteristics referred to as “Jewish behavior” a concept characterized by several criticized traits such as: national superiority complex, covenant-breaking, dishonesty, troublemaking, and materialism. Subsequently, he worked on the etymological foundations of the word “yahudi” which was examined from a historical perspective, derived from the combination of the word “yahu” meaning God, and “di” meaning acknowledgment or reward. Over time and throughout history, the word “Jewish” has taken on various social and historical meanings, and connotations, specifically in Greek, Roman, and medieval European cultures, where it sometimes appeared with negative meanings like: merchant, materialist, or deceiver.
Volume 9 · Issue 2 · March 2022Economic Life of the Jews of the Sulaimani Brigade (1921-1958 )
Aras Abdurahman Mstafa, Diary Ali Pirot
In the first half of the twentieth century, The Jews formed a part of the Population of Kurdistan, and a large number of Jews in the Sulaimaniyah Brigade spread throughout the cities and villages, as well as the Jews' intelligence about their work and personality and the preoccupation of the Jews only. By work, this has generally made the Jews of all Iraq better off in their economic situation than most other nations, even if the Jews who lived in the villages did not get worse if they did not live better than the Muslims. In the Sulaimaniyah bazaar, they worked daily as Muslims in the city, and a number of Jewish shopkeepers in the bazaar, along with Muslim businessmen, were busy with business daily. In many cities and towns in Kurdistan, Geri was a prominent Jewish profession, and it has been mentioned in the narrations that many Jews have faced gangsters and obstacles between cities and towns. Agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry were other Jewish occupations, and they distributed their time to work, for example, in villages planting agricultural products in summer, and other jobs such as livestock and bending. For winter, although many historical sources point out, Iraqi Jews have generally worked less in agriculture than in other fields such as industry and commerce, so the Jews of Iraq have advanced to Israel. In terms of ownership and land, they were generally small and medium-sized property, and they did not have large property. The Jews were great in the industry, and in the most obvious effects of the departure of the Jews in Sulaimaniyah, it was the remaining goldsmith's career for the Kurds, because the Kurds had not done goldsmiths before. Only the Jews had this job, and Khomeini was one of the jobs that remained for the Kurds after the Jews, in a way that they started working in every Jewish khomeini shop. Knitting was one of the main professions in which Jews in Kurdistan had good experience, knitting as a Jewish industry, in research on Kurdish Jewish culture and in narrating the letters of tourists of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.