Iraq’s Last Jews [electronic resource] : Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon /
Morad, T.author.
Shasha, D.author.
Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century. This book tells the story of this last generation of Iraqi Jews, who both reminisce about their birth country and describe the persecution that drove them out, the result of Nazi influences, growing Arab nationalism, and anger over the creation of the State of Israel.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-216) and index.
Shlomo el-Kevity -- Ezra Zilkha -- Salim Sassoon -- Salim Fattal -- Oded Halahmy -- Alfred and Hanina Shasha -- Sami Michael -- Shlomo Hillel -- Ilana Marcus -- Shlomo Sehayek -- Mordechai Ben Porat -- Saeed Herdoon -- Oddil Dallall -- Zuhair Sassoon -- Ronit Dangour -- Linda Masri Hakim -- Aida Zelouf -- Richard Obadiah -- Eli Amir -- Dhiaa Kasim Kashi.
Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century. This book tells the story of this last generation of Iraqi Jews, who both reminisce about their birth country and describe the persecution that drove them out, the result of Nazi influences, growing Arab nationalism, and anger over the creation of the State of Israel.
Judaism.
Middle East—History.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
Ethnology—Middle East .
Asia—History.
Judaism.
History of the Middle East.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Asian History.