My father's paradise, a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq, Ariel Sabar
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My father's paradise, a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq, Ariel Sabar
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-332)
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non fiction
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My father's paradise
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bibliography
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Ariel Sabar
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a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq
Summary
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers, humble peddlers and rugged loggers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendents of the Lost tribes of israel, Yona Sabar was born
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adult
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Son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq
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