Iraqi Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraqi Jews write by Abbas Shiblak. This book was released on 2005. Iraqi Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Jews of Iraq constituted one of the oldest and most deeply rooted Jewish communities in the world. But in the early 1950s most of them left for Israel, under circumstances that remain the subject of heated controversy. Iraqi Jews: A History examines the role of this community, highlighting the critical years of the late 1940s - after the establishment of the state of Israel - when deep rifts began to appear in Iraqi society. The sad sequence of events that finally led to the mass exodus of Jews in the 1950s was marked by dishonesty on all sides. An impartial and well-documented account of a formerly well-integrated and vibrant community, Iraqi Jews: A History is a landmark in the political and social history of the Middle East.
New Babylonians
New Babylonians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Babylonians write by Orit Bashkin. This book was released on 2012-09-12. New Babylonians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s. As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of misguided state policies during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, from a dominant mood of coexistence, friendship, and partnership, the impossibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence became the prevailing narrative in the region—and the dominant narrative we have come to know today.
Impossible Exodus
Impossible Exodus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impossible Exodus write by Orit Bashkin. This book was released on 2017. Impossible Exodus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary. Basic necessities like water were in short supply, when they were available at all. Rather than returning to a homeland as native sons, Iraqi Jews were newcomers in a foreign place. Impossible Exodus tells the story of these Iraqi Jews' first decades in Israel. Faced with ill treatment and discrimination from state officials, Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined Israeli political parties, demonstrated in the streets, and fought for the education of their children, leading a civil rights struggle whose legacy continues to influence contemporary debates in Israel. Orit Bashkin sheds light on their everyday lives and their determination in a new country, uncovering their long, painful transformation from Iraqi to Israeli. In doing so, she shares the resilience and humanity of a community whose story has yet to be told.
Iraq’s Last Jews
Iraq’s Last Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraq’s Last Jews write by T. Morad. This book was released on 2008-10-27. Iraq’s Last Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century. This book tells the story of this last generation of Iraqi Jews, who both reminisce about their birth country and describe the persecution that drove them out, the result of Nazi influences, growing Arab nationalism, and anger over the creation of the State of Israel.
From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond
From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond write by Jacob B. Shammash. This book was released on 2018-04-26. From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most people have heard of Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass in Hitlers Germany. Very few have heard of the Farhud in Baghdad, Iraq. The authors memoir begins in a world that no longer exists
