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Items with the tag:

iraq

Essay

‘A Land­scape of Ghost Towns’: Geno­cide in Iraq

Seth J. Frantzman
November 4, 2019
Recommended Reading

Book Cov­er of the Week: Tomor­row There Will be Apricots

Post­ed by Cha­va LanskyIn Tomor­row There Will be Apri­cots Jes­si­ca Sof­fer tells the sto­ry of two women adrift in New York City: one an almost orphan and the sec­ond…
Cha­va Lansky
July 1, 2014
Non­fic­tion
Val­or: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front
Mark Lee Greenblatt
Essay

Is His­to­ry a Prison or a Home?

Ear­li­er this week, Joshua Fat­tal wrote about remem­ber­ing Hebrew School while a pris­on­er in Iran and being a Jew cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas in Iran­ian prison. He…
Joshua Fat­tal
March 21, 2014
Non­fic­tion
New Baby­lo­ni­ans: A His­to­ry of Jews in Mod­ern Iraq
Orit Bashkin
Fic­tion
Tomor­row There Will Be Apricots
Jes­si­ca Soffer
Non­fic­tion
The Last Jews in Bagh­dad: Remem­ber­ing a Lost Homeland
Nissim Rejwan
Non­fic­tion
Where God Was Born
Bruce Feiler
Non­fic­tion
My Moth­er’s Spice Cup­board: A Jour­ney from Bagh­dad to Bom­bay to Bondi
Elana Ben­jamin
Non­fic­tion
Farewell, Baby­lon: Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Baghdad
Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
Non­fic­tion
Iraq’s Last Jews: Sto­ries of Dai­ly Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Mod­ern Babylon
Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
Non­fic­tion
My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for his Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq
Ariel Sabar
Fic­tion
Farewell to Dejla: Sto­ries of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile
Tova Murad Sadka
Non­fic­tion
Out­sider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel
Nissim Rejwan University of Texas Press
Non­fic­tion
Mem­o­ries of Eden: A Jour­ney Through Jew­ish Baghdad
Violette Shamash; Mira and Tony Roca, eds.
Essay

Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for His Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq, wrote an essay for last…
JBC Staff
July 20, 2009

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