Last Jews in Baghdad Remembering a Lost Homeland

Name: Last Jews in Baghdad Remembering a Lost Homeland
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ISBN: 9780292726888

ISBN-10: 0292726880

ISBN-13: 9780292726888

Edition: 2004

Authors: Nissim Rejwan, Joel Beinin

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Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians--all native-born Iraqis--intermingled, speaking virtually the same colloquial Arabic and sharing a common sense of national identity. And then, almost overnight it seemed, the state of Israel was born, and lines were drawn between Jews and Arabs. Over the next couple of years, nearly the entire Jewish population of Baghdad fled their Iraqi homeland, never to return.In this beautifully written memoir,…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword. Jews as Native Iraqis


An Introduction



Preface. On Taking Stock



In Old Baghdad



The Rejwan Tribe



Mother and the Placebo Effect



Na`ima



Early Initiations



Schooling



The Great Crash and Us



Hesqail Abul `Alwa Hires a Helper



Living in Sexual Deprivation



Idle Days



Distorted Visions



Rashid `Ali's Coup and its Aftermath



Bookshop Days



A Deepening Friendship



The Start: Movies, Book Reviews



Out in the Cold



Disposing of a Library



End of a Community



Farewells and Reunions



The Jews of Iraq: A Brief Historical Sketch



A Selection of Book Reviews from the Iraq Times Index of Names of Persons