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Author Sabar, Ariel

Title My father's paradise : a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq / Ariel Sabar

Publisher Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  305.892 .S1137m    AVAILABLE  
 UMA Stacks  DS135.K8 S23 2008    AVAILABLE  
Edition 1st edition
Phys Descr viii, 332 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-332)
Summary My Father's Paradise is Ariel Sabar's quest to reconcile present and past. As Ariel's father, Yona, travels with him to today's postwar Iraq to find what's left of Yona's birthplace, Ariel brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, telling his family's story and discovering his own role in this sweeping saga. What he finds in the Sephardic Jews' millennia-long survival in Islamic lands is an improbable story of tolerance and hope
Contents A note on method -- Introduction -- Zakho -- Israel -- Aramaic -- Yale -- Father and son -- The return -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Selected bibliography
Note AUG: From the collection of Dr. Jill L. Rubinson, Professor Emeritus UMA.
Subject Sabar, Yona
Jews, Kurdish -- Iraq -- Zkh
Sabar, Ariel
Jews, Kurdish -- Israel
Jews, Kurdish -- United States
OCLC # 226356853
ISBN # 9781565124905
1565124901