Nissim Rejwan

The Last Jews in Baghdad

Remembering a Lost Homeland

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Produktbeschreibung

Recalls the lost Jewish community of Baghdad, in which the author was a child and young man from the 1920s to 1951

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780292726888
• ISBN-10: 0292726880
• Artikelnr.: 35481984

Autorenporträt

Nissim Rejwan is a Research Fellow at the Harry S .Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Over a distinguished, six-decade career as a historian and journalist, he has published numerous books, including The Jews of Iraq: 3000 Years of History and Culture and Israel's Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective, for which he won the 1998 National Jewish Book Award for Israel Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Jews as Native Iraqis: An Introduction by Joel Beinin
Preface. On Taking Stock
1. In Old Baghdad
2. The Rejwan Tribe
3. Mother and the Placebo Effect
4. Na`ima
5. Early Initiations
6. Schooling
7. The Great Crash and Us
8. Hesqail Abul `Alwa Hires a Helper
9. Living in Sexual Deprivation
10. Idle Days
11. Distorted Visions
12. Rashid `Ali's Coup and its Aftermath
13. Bookshop Days
14. A Deepening Friendship
15. The Start: Movies, Book Reviews
16. Out in the Cold
17. Disposing of a Library
18. End of a Community
19. Farewells and Reunions
Appendix A. The Jews of Iraq: A Brief Historical Sketch
Appendix B. A Selection of Book Reviews from the Iraq Times
Index of Names of Persons