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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451765103321

Autore

Rejwan Nissim

Titolo

The last Jews in Baghdad [[electronic resource] ] : remembering a lost homeland / / Nissim Rejwan ; foreword by Joel Beinin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2004

ISBN

0-292-79747-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

956.7/47004924/092

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Soggetti

Jews - Iraq - Baghdad

Jews - Iraq - Baghdad - Social life and customs

Jews - Iraq - Baghdad - Social conditions - 20th century

Electronic books.

Baghdad (Iraq) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

In old Baghdad -- The Rejwan tribe -- Mother and the placebo effect -- Naʻīma -- Early initiations -- Schooling -- The great crash and US -- Hesqail Abul ʻAlwa hires a helper -- Living in sexual deprivation -- Idle days -- Distorted visions -- Rashid ʻAli's coup and its aftermath -- Bookshop days -- A deepening friendship -- The start : movies, book reviews -- Out in the cold -- Disposing of a library -- End of a community -- Farewells and reunions.