New Babylonians : a History of Jews in Modern Iraq.

By:

Bashkin, Orit

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780804782012
0804782016

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

305.892/4056709041 305.8924056709041

LOC classification:

DS135.I7 .B374 2012
DS135.I7B3745 2012

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Brothers and Others; Chapter 2: Nationalism and Patriotism; Chapter 3: The Effendia; Chapter 4: Friends, Neighbors, and Enemies; Chapter 5: Red Baghdad; Chapter 6: An End?; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community-which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years-was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s. As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not t.

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Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community-which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years-was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s. As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not t.