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From melting container that was Iraqi modern culture comes an account, recounted with a grand old man of Canadian characters, of growing up as a Jewish boy in Baghdad in the 1940s.
Naim Kattan was created into an intellectual Jewish family in Baghdad in 1928. He, his sibling, and his friend Nessim were the sole Jews in several teenagers who met each night in a cafe to discuss passionately abut setting up a national Iraqi books in their newly independent country. That they had good reason, for although Jewish community in Iraq dated back again 2500 years, and Jews were abmong the best Arabic scholars in the united states, they were never considered equals by the Muslim majority.
In 1941, after United kingdom pushes defeated the German-backed Iraqi insurgents, upset Bedouins came into Baghdad before it could be secured and began the Farhoud, the massacre of Jews in the city. The violence halted just lacking the Kattans' house, but the family immediately began the long program process for visas. Kattan began selling stories to literary mags and speculating about the role of ladies in a country where even Jewish women wore veils. He eventually acquired a scholarship to the Sorbonne and still left his family, never to be reunited with them until five years later, when he found them in a settlement camp in Israel
This is a memoir of individuality, of growing up in a tumultuous polyglot modern culture, of change both personal and societal, of finding one's devote life. Here is a fascinating portrait of any people, a city, circumstances, and a culture that are as troubled today as Kattan found them sixty years ago.
