Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0743258436
ISBN 13
9780743258432
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, United Kingdom
Pages
320
Subject
Baghdad (Iraq) --Biography.; Jews --Iraq --Baghdad --Social conditions --20th century.; Benjamin, Marina.; Iraq --Description and travel.
Abstract
Draws on the experiences of the author's own family to chronicle the odyssey and ultimate exile of Jewish Iraqis, documenting how Jewish citizens in Baghdad deteriorated from the region's largest and most prosperous ethnic group to a band of a few dozen survivors under the oppression of a hostile Iraqi government.
Number of Copies
1
