The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews by Cynthia Kaplan Shamash

The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews

Cynthia Kaplan Shamash

240 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction emotional reflective slow-paced
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This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five ...

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