Chapter 4 From the Baghdad Girls' School to the Laura Kadoorie School for Girls, 1905-1915 -- A Time of Change: Baghdadi Jews and the Revolution of 1908-1909 -- Recovering from Cholera: The Enrollment Explosion in the Girls' School in 1905 -- Student Enrollment and School Constr…
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational institutions for local Jewish children. In …
Pioneering Jewish education : the AIU in Baghdad, 1864-1895 -- From Danon to Sutton : The Baghdad Girls' School, 1896-1899 -- Making adjustments : Oro Sémach's tenure in Baghdad, 1899-1904 -- From the Baghdad Girls' School to the Laura Kadoorie School for Girls, 1905-1915 -- The…