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,
“... her family, joined relatives in India, where there were entire communities of Baghdadi Jews. Yet Sasson Somekh insists that the farhud was not ‘the beginning of the end’. Indeed, he claims it was soon ‘almost erased from the collective Jewish memory’, washed away by ‘the prosperity experienced by the entire city from 1941 to 1948’. ... ”
