New Babylonians - A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

Zusatztext "This remarkable book examines the tragic modern history of the oldest and most deeply rooted Jewish community in the Arab world. Bashkin succeeds in avoiding the many pitfalls which confront an author dealing with such a charged topic by deploying empathy! careful historical analysis and great rigor. This book should be welcomed by all those who seek to free themselves of the blinders imposed by different varieties of extreme nationalism! and as such should be welcomed by scholars everywhere." Informationen zum Autor Orit Bashkin is Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford, 2008). Klappentext This book explores a historical moment in which a Middle Eastern Jewish community not only adopted a new nation, Iraq, but a new ethnicity, Arabism-and its ultimate demise. Zusammenfassung This book explores a historical moment in which a Middle Eastern Jewish community not only adopted a new nation, Iraq, but a new ethnicity, Arabism—and its ultimate demise.

Summary

This book explores a historical moment in which a Middle Eastern Jewish community not only adopted a new nation, Iraq, but a new ethnicity, Arabism-and its ultimate demise.

Product details

• Authors: Orit Bashkin
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2012
• EAN: 9780804778756
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7875-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Jewish, History - General History