My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq2008
About this book
An award-winning journalist describes his father's birth into an isolated community of Kurdish Jews, their emigration to Israel in the 1950s, the disappearance of the ancient culture and language of the Kurdish Jews, and his and his father's journey to postwar Iraq to uncover the vanished history of a people and place.
Details
- Published
- 2008
- ISBN-10
- 1565124901
About Ariel Sabar
Yona Sabar is a Kurdistani Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He is professor emeritus of Hebrew at the University of California, Los Angeles. A native speaker of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, Sabar has published more than 90 research articles about Jewish Neo-Aramaic and the folklore of the Jews of Kurdistan.
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