Iraq's Last Jews Stories of Daily Life,

Iraq's Last Jewsis a collection of first-person accounts of Iraqi Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2,500 year-old Jewish community. It is also about the escape and rebirth of that community in the middle of the 20th century in the face of oppression and violence resulting originally from Nazi influences in Iraq, growing Arab nationalism, and eventually Arab anger at the creation of the state of Israel.

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.

Series Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: The Historical Context	p. 1
Iraq, Our Country	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Shlomo el-Kevity	p. 16
Ezra Zilkha	p. 30
Salim Sassoon	p. 40
Salim Fattal	p. 50
Oded Halahmy	p. 60
Alfred and Hanina Shasha	p. 69
Sami Michael	p. 76
An Audacious Plan	p. 93
Introduction	p. 95
Shlomo Hillel	p. 96
Ilana Marcus	p. 114
Shlomo Sehayek	p. 121
Mordechai Ben Porat	p. 134
Our Country No More	p. 151
Introduction	p. 153
Saeed Herdoon	p. 155
Oddil Dallall	p. 167
Zuhair Sassoon	p. 176
Ronit Dangour	p. 182
Linda Masri Hakim	p. 191
Aida Zelouf	p. 203
Richard Obadiah	p. 213
On the Outside	p. 227
Introduction	p. 229
Eli Amir	p. 231
Dhiaa Kasim Kashi	p. 239
Conclusion	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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Iraq's Last Jews Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon

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