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Author Rejwan, Nissim

Title The last Jews in Baghdad : remembering a lost homeland / Nissim Rejwan ; foreword by Joel Beinin
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages)
Contents In old Baghdad -- The Rejwan tribe -- Mother and the placebo effect -- Naʻīma -- Early initiations -- Schooling -- The great crash and US -- Hesqail Abul ʻAlwa hires a helper -- Living in sexual deprivation -- Idle days -- Distorted visions -- Rashid ʻAli's coup and its aftermath -- Bookshop days -- A deepening friendship -- The start : movies, book reviews -- Out in the cold -- Disposing of a library -- End of a community -- Farewells and reunions
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Subject Rejwan, Nissim.
SUBJECT Rejwan, Nissim fast
Subject Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Biography
Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Social life and customs
Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Social conditions -- 20th century
HISTORY -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews -- Social conditions
Jews -- Social life and customs
Dagelijks leven.
Joden.
SUBJECT Baghdad (Iraq) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Iraq -- Baghdad
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0292797478
9780292797475