According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir--an intimate portrait of an individual life, ...
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According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir--an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century.
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Book. Octavo; G+/paperback; green/red pictorial spine with black text; first Northwestern printing; covers have minimal exterior wear; covers fully attached; tight binding; exterior edges to text block has few smudges; several fore corners turned down; some underlining and marginalia inside; illustrated; pp 199. 1345789. FP New Rockville Stock.
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