My father's paradise : a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]My father's paradise : a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number305.892405672/0001
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07021
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2008
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]344p.
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9781565129337
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
A 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 father's journey to postwar Iraq to uncover the vanished history of a people and place.