18th century

Northern Mesopotamia Probably Mosul.

3.3 x 3.3 Cm

The shape of a David Star silver engraved school badge prescribed as the (ESMAT DABISTAN)-(Esmat School) is said to have been used to identify the particular school regularly being attended at the school classes and being registered its members, predominantly in Northern Iraq probably in the city of Mosul.

Footnotes;

Jewish refugee Kurdish Lands In the 12th Century CE, some Jews fled violent Crusaders in Syria and the Land of Israel, finding refuge among the Jewish communities of Kurdistan. In the mid-13th century CE, Iraqi Jews fled from major Jewish centres like Baghdad as Mongols captured those areas; many moved north and west into Kurdish areas, joining the vibrant Jewish communities there. As Jews poured from the land of Israel into Kurdish areas, David Alroy, an infamous Kurdish Jewish figure, arose. In the 12th century in the city of Amadiya, he raised a Jewish army and prepared to march to Jerusalem and liberate the city from the Crusaders. Before his Jewish warriors could depart on this mission, David Alroy was killed. Accounts vary. The Jewish explorer Benjamin of Tudela wrote that he was murdered by the local sultan after encouraging Jews to rise against their rulers. Some accounts maintain that Alroy was killed in his sleep by his father-in-law. After his death, some Jews falsely revered Alroy as the Messiah, even though his grand plan to come to the aid of Jerusalem’s Jews had utterly failed. The Prophet Nahum Kurdish Jews particularly revere the Jewish prophet Nahum who wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire and its capital city Nineveh. Each year during the holiday Shavuot, Jews travelled to Nahum’s tomb, in modern-day Iraq, staging elaborate holiday celebrations.

As expected some surface scratches due to its  used ages as viewed.

Acquired from Oliver Hoare.