Iraq's Last Jews Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon

"This book tells the story of the last generation of Iraqi Jews, collecting the oral histories of wealth businessmen and Communists, popular musicians and reformist writers, Iraqi patriots and early Zionists. Recorded here are accounts of heroism, ideals, and intrigue, from the undercover Israeli agents who helped orchestrate the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews to Israel to those who argued for the lives of their loved ones in the brutal prisons of Saddam Hussein to Muslims who saved endangered Jews. Collectively, these oral histories tell a story about quiet bravery and the possibility of peace in times of great upheaval."--BOOK JACKET.

Tamar Morad is a journalist who has worked at the Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post, and the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. Robert Shasha is founder and president of the Cotswold Group, a real estate ownership and management company. Dennis Shasha is a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of New York University.