Leaving Paradise
Adam Shatz: Iraqi Jews, 6 November 2008
Memories of Eden: A Journey through Jewish Baghdad
by Violette Shamash, edited by Mira Rocca and Tona Rocca.
Forum, 326 pp., £14.99, February 2008,978 0 9557095 0 0 Show More
by Violette Shamash, edited by Mira Rocca and Tona Rocca.
Forum, 326 pp., £14.99, February 2008,
Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew
by Sasson Somekh.
Ibis, 186 pp., £9.50, November 2007,978 965 90125 8 9 Show More
by Sasson Somekh.
Ibis, 186 pp., £9.50, November 2007,
“... On 27 April 1950 a man whose passport identified him as Richard Armstrong flew from Amsterdam to Baghdad. He came as a representative of Near East Air Transport, an American charter company seeking to win a contract with Iraq’s prime minister, Tawfiq al-Suwaida, to fly Iraqi Jews to Cyprus. Only six weeks earlier, the Iraqi government had passed the Denaturalisation Act, which allowed Jews to emigrate provided they renounced their citizenship, and gave them a year to decide whether to do so ... ”
