My father's paradise : a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq / Ariel Sabar.

By:

Sabar, Ariel

Publication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 332 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:

9781565124905
1565124901

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.892/405672092 22

LOC classification:

DS135.K8 S23 2008

Contents:

A note on method -- Introduction -- Zakho -- Israel -- Aramaic -- Yale -- Father and son -- The return -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Selected bibliography.

Summary: My Father's Paradise is Ariel Sabar's quest to reconcile present and past. As Ariel's father, Yona, travels with him to today's postwar Iraq to find what's left of Yona's birthplace, Ariel brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, telling his family's story and discovering his own role in this sweeping saga. What he finds in the Sephardic Jews' millennia-long survival in Islamic lands is an improbable story of tolerance and hope.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-332).

My Father's Paradise is Ariel Sabar's quest to reconcile present and past. As Ariel's father, Yona, travels with him to today's postwar Iraq to find what's left of Yona's birthplace, Ariel brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, telling his family's story and discovering his own role in this sweeping saga. What he finds in the Sephardic Jews' millennia-long survival in Islamic lands is an improbable story of tolerance and hope.

A note on method -- Introduction -- Zakho -- Israel -- Aramaic -- Yale -- Father and son -- The return -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Selected bibliography.

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