My father's paradise
Subtitle: a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq
By: Ariel Sabar.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781565124905
Subjects: Sabar, Yona; Sabar, Ariel; Jews, Kurdish -- Iraq -- Zākhū; Jews, Kurdish -- Israel; Jews, Kurdish -- United States
Description: My Father's Paradise is Ariel Sabar's quest to reconcile present and past. As Ariel's father, Yona, travels with him to today's postwar Iraq to find what's left of Yona's birthplace, Ariel brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, telling his family's story and discovering his own role in this sweeping saga. What he finds in the Sephardic Jews' millennia-long survival in Islamic lands is an improbable story of tolerance and hope.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A note on method; title: Introduction; title: Zakho; title: Israel; title: Aramaic; title: Yale; title: Father and son; title: The return; title: Conclusion; title: Paradise lost; title: Ice-blended mocha; title: Saba's music; title: Acknowledgements.