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  • 21BAGHDAD — BAGHDAD, capital city of iraq . Baghdad was the capital of the abbasid dynasty from its foundation in 762. From then a Jewish community existed there which eventually became the largest Jewish community of Iraq, and the seat of the exilarch.… …

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  • 22LIPPOLD — (d. 1573), Court Jew to Joachim II (1535–71), elector of Brandenburg. When in 1556 he was appointed supervisor of Brandenburg Jewry and collector of all monies paid by it to the court for ten years, the elector called him our beloved, faithful… …

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