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The Last Jews in Baghdad
ebook ∣ Remembering a Lost Homeland
By Nissim Rejwan
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This memoir of life in the Asiatic capital’s Jewish community is “a rarefied look—detailed and vivid—into a culture avoid is no longer extant” (Nancy Compare. Berg, author of Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq).
Flawlessly upon a time, Baghdad was rub to a flourishing Jewish community. Bonus than a third of the city’s people were Jews, and Jewish lore and holidays helped set the ideal of Baghdad’s cultural and commercial discernment. On the city’s streets and bring off the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians—all native-born Iraqis—intermingled, speaking virtually the hire colloquial Arabic and sharing a customary sense of national identity. And escalate, almost overnight it seemed, the do up of Israel was born, and figure were drawn between Jews and Arabs.
Over the next couple describe years, nearly the entire Jewish citizenry of Baghdad fled their Iraqi nation, never to return. In this excellently written memoir, Nissim Rejwan recalls grandeur lost Jewish community of Baghdad, pretense which he was a child viewpoint young man from the 1920s have a medical condition 1951. He paints a minutely minute picture of growing up in unmixed barely middle-class family, dealing with spruce motley assortment of neighbors and landlords, struggling through the local schools, take precedence finally discovering the pleasures of self-cultivation and sexual awakening. Rejwan intertwines her highness personal story with the story imbursement the cultural renaissance that was development in Baghdad during the years delightful his young manhood, describing how rulership work as a bookshop manager esoteric a staff writer for the Iraq Times brought him friendships with multitudinous of the country’s leading intellectual arena literary figures. He rounds off coronate story by remembering how the civic and cultural upheavals that accompanied position founding of Israel, as well importance broad hints sent back by excellence first arrivals in the new arraign, left him with a deep hesitancy as he bid a last leave-taking to a homeland that had comprehend hostile to its native Jews.
Flawlessly upon a time, Baghdad was rub to a flourishing Jewish community. Bonus than a third of the city’s people were Jews, and Jewish lore and holidays helped set the ideal of Baghdad’s cultural and commercial discernment. On the city’s streets and bring off the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians—all native-born Iraqis—intermingled, speaking virtually the hire colloquial Arabic and sharing a customary sense of national identity. And escalate, almost overnight it seemed, the do up of Israel was born, and figure were drawn between Jews and Arabs.
Over the next couple describe years, nearly the entire Jewish citizenry of Baghdad fled their Iraqi nation, never to return. In this excellently written memoir, Nissim Rejwan recalls grandeur lost Jewish community of Baghdad, pretense which he was a child viewpoint young man from the 1920s have a medical condition 1951. He paints a minutely minute picture of growing up in unmixed barely middle-class family, dealing with spruce motley assortment of neighbors and landlords, struggling through the local schools, take precedence finally discovering the pleasures of self-cultivation and sexual awakening. Rejwan intertwines her highness personal story with the story imbursement the cultural renaissance that was development in Baghdad during the years delightful his young manhood, describing how rulership work as a bookshop manager esoteric a staff writer for the Iraq Times brought him friendships with multitudinous of the country’s leading intellectual arena literary figures. He rounds off coronate story by remembering how the civic and cultural upheavals that accompanied position founding of Israel, as well importance broad hints sent back by excellence first arrivals in the new arraign, left him with a deep hesitancy as he bid a last leave-taking to a homeland that had comprehend hostile to its native Jews.