New Babylonians A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

Name: New Babylonians A History of Jews in Modern Iraq
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ISBN: 9780804778756

ISBN-10: 0804778752

ISBN-13: 9780804778756

Edition: 2012

Authors: Orit Bashkin

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Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel.New Babylonianschronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s.As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 9/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Brothers and Others: Iraqi Identity and Arab Jewishness



Nationalism and Patriotism: Visions of the Nation



The Effendia: Questions of Secularism and Judaism



Friends, Neighbors, and Enemies: Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and the Farhud



Red Baghdad: Iraqi Jews and the ICP, 1941-51



An End? Iraqi Jews and the Iraqi State, 1946-51


Conclusions


Notes


Bibliography


Index