This Art Newspaper article dates from January 2004.
Unfortunately their site always displays the current date
rather than the date of the article in question.
The Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi
Libraries published the The Iraqi Jewish Archive
Preservation Report of October
Did this person mention how long ago s/he read about this? The project
began in 2003. It was mentioned in the New York Times in the following
article:
Iraqi Documents on Israel Surface on a Cultural Hunt
Judith Miller.
May 7, 2003 pA17 col 01
There was also a presentation about this project
Stanley,
There is an article on this on today's The Art Newspaper
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11494. It is entitled
Saddam's secret hoard of Jewish manuscripts by Martha Lufkin (Military
personnel discovered the cache while searching for weapons of mass
destruction
Someone mentioned to me, that he read about, probably
in The New York Times, a collection of Judaica from
Iraq that is being acquired by the Library of
Congress.
There appeared to be something in the article about
people who work for the government not being allowed
to catalog the collection at
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