Iraq’s Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon Palgrave Studies in Oral History | 2008 Edition

Details about Iraq’s Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon Palgrave Studies in Oral History:

Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century. This book tells the story of this last generation of Iraqi Jews, who both reminisce about their birth country and describe the persecution that drove them out, the result of Nazi influences, growing Arab nationalism, and anger over the creation of the State of Israel.