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Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-27 - Publisher: Springer
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Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press
This memoir of life in the Iraqi capital’s Jewish community is “a rare look—detailed and vivid—into a culture that is no longer extant” (Nancy E. Berg
Language: en
Pages: 234
Pages: 234
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-22 - Publisher: Brandeis University Press
This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tr
Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-11 - Publisher: Routledge
This book provides an account of the Jews of Iraq, their history, culture and society. It covers the Iraqi Jewish history in three parts: from the Assyrian Capt
Language: en
Pages: 319
Pages: 319
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press
According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Thr