In the historiography on Iraqi Jews, the 1940’s are often considered as a period of polarization towards new allegiances. Some joined the Iraqi Communist Party, while others joined the newly founded Zionist movement. By exploring the impact of the 1936 and 1941 coups d’état on intellectual activities of the Jews in Baghdad, I claim, however, that an alternative way was also possible. Baghdadi Jews who were well established in intellectual and public milieus did not wish to risk this favourable position by going underground, and strove to maintain their old allegiances. From the beginning of the 1930’s, many Iraqi Jewish journalists and writers became acquainted with progressive (taqaddumiyyun) and leftist (yasariyyun) Iraqi democrats (dimuqratiyyun) such as young activists from the Ahali group. After the 1936 coup d’état, the Ahali group – under the aegis of one of its member and leader of the coup, Hikmat Sulayman – has known a first period of political glory that was soon voiced in the press. In many aspects, Jewish journalists and writers followed their editorial policies. Again, in 1946, three leftist parties – whose founders were all once involved in the Ahali group – were officially recognized by the Suwaydi government (the National Democratic Party, the People’s Party and the National Unity Party). Their press quickly re-flourished, and Jews took an active part in their activities. In this paper I will present the carrier of Baghdadi Jews who were active in these leftist circles. By examining their writing activities and the nature of their social and professional networks with other intellectuals, I will show that ties between various elements of the Iraqi leftist intellectual clique were strong enough to allow its Jewish members to maintain their position within these circles. Leaders of the leftist parties and chief editors of the press, employed many of their Jewish colleagues. They, in turn, took advantage of this entrenched position within the public sphere to express their views on Iraqi domestic and foreign policies, and to reaffirm their will to belong.