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Iraq's last Jews : stories of daily life, upheaval, and escape from modern Babylon / edited by Tamar...

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Iraq's last Jews : stories of daily life, upheaval, and escape from modern Babylon / edited by Tamar...

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Iraq's last Jews : stories of daily life, upheaval, and escape from modern Babylon / edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha.

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Full title

Iraq's last Jews : stories of daily life, upheaval, and escape from modern Babylon / edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha.

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Date

2009.

Call Numbers

G 2013/947

Record Identifier

74VvBR3JyV7A

MMS ID

991016410149702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xvi, 260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

Shmuel Moreh -- Shlomo el-Kevity -- Ezra Zilkha -- Salim Sassoon -- Salim Fattal -- Oded Halahmy -- Alfred and Hanina Shasha -- Sami Michael -- Shlomo Hillel -- Ilana Marcus -- Shlomo Sehayek -- Mordechai Ben Porat -- Saeed Herdoon -- Oddil Dallall -- Zuhair Sassoon -- Ronit Dangour -- Linda Masri H...

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Edition

1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

2009.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts of Iraqi Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2,500 year-old Jewish community. It is also about the escape and rebirth of that community in the middle of the 20th century in the face of oppression and violence resulting originally from Nazi influences in Iraq, growing Arab national...

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Full title

Iraq's last Jews : stories of daily life, upheaval, and escape from modern Babylon / edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Palgrave studies in oral history.

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2013/947

Record Identifier

74VvBR3JyV7A

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvBR3JyV7A

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ISBN

0230618006 (pbk.)

9780230618008 (pbk.)

DDC

305.892405670922

MMS ID

991016410149702626

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