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Yes; and it's mentioned in the Talmud (Ketubot 10b). In 1940, the Jewish population of Baghdad was 150,000 people, roughly one-third of the entire city. Between the pogroms (the Farhud of 1941 being the most explosively violent), the humiliations (when the Iraqi government claimed that Jews were committing fraud against Muslims to ruin Jewish businesses), and the executions (49 Jews were executed for "having connections to the Zionist conspiracy"), Jews thought it best to leave Iraq as a soon as possible. Between 1950-1952, over 80% of Iraq's Jews (a total community of 170,000-180,000 fled to Israel, France, UK, Iran (which was an ally of Israel and the USA at the time), and the United States.
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