My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Ariel Sabar

332 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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In a remote and dusty corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an ancient community of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke AramaicÑthe language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gi...

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