Life & contribution
Baghdad businessman and community representative who served in leadership roles among the small Jewish community that remained in Iraq after the mass departure of the early 1950s.
Detailed biography & historical context
Baghdad businessman and community representative who served in leadership roles among the small Jewish community that remained in Iraq after the mass departure of the early 1950s.
The documented record currently assembled for Naji Salman Salih includes the following: Born in Baghdad in 1920, he became a businessman and later a representative and deputy leader of the very small Jewish community that remained in Iraq. Worked with Iraqi ministries on communal property and welfare matters and continued to represent Jewish community interests into the late twentieth century.
This figure documents the institutional and communal history of Iraqi Jewry: how leadership, property, welfare, worship and representation were maintained under changing political conditions and after the community became much smaller.
Archive classification: Community Leadership. Recorded life dates/status: 1920–2015.
This profile synthesizes the documentary sources listed below; where the record is limited or contested, the dossier avoids unsupported detail.
Additional documented context
- Born in Baghdad in 1920, he became a businessman and later a representative and deputy leader of the very small Jewish community that remained in Iraq.
- Worked with Iraqi ministries on communal property and welfare matters and continued to represent Jewish community interests into the late twentieth century.
Documentary references
Additional biographical details are tied to the source records below.
Permanent ID · IJHDA-PER-0049
This biographical figure record is integrated into Discover Jewish Iraq from the Virtual Embassy’s Iraqi Jewish heritage collection.