Here's an excerpt from the Baghdad Museum website.......
31 posted on 02/09/2006 8:28:39 AM MST by magisterium
Was the Babylonian Talmud written in Rome? Everyone knows that it was written in Babylon. You would deny the history of G-d's Chosen people and believe haSatan.
Iraq
Main article: History of the Jews in Iraq Iraqi Jews' constitute one of the world's oldest, and historically most important, Jewish communities. Abraham came from Ur in Babylon, and it was to Babylon that the Jews were exiled around 600 BCE. The descendants of these exiles ensured that Babylonia became the most important Jewish community after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem. The community thrived as the center of Jewish learning until the Middle Ages, when the Mongol invasion, and the subsequent persecutions of the Persians significantly reduced its importance. With the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the life of Iraqi Jews improved, though the community never regained its former importance. Iraqi Jews played an important role in the early days of the country's independence, but the Iraqi Jewish community, numbered at around 150,000 in 1948, was almost entirely driven out of the country by increasing persecution from the 1940s onwards. Today, less than 100 remain.
from History of the Jews in Islamic lands
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The article states that *Babylonia* was a center for Jewish culture after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem. That may, to an extent, be true. But "Babylonia" is not the same as "Babylon," to begin with, and, if the case is to be made that it is *supposed* to be Babylon, there is more to consider. The scholarship of the article is more than a little suspect and, in any case, we're dealing with Wikipedia here. Wikipedia may be better than nothing to research a lot of topics, but the fact remains that it is NOT authoritative, as it can be edited by any contributor. Things can and do get edited out of spite, ignorance or sloppiness on Wikipedia all the time.