Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad

by Violette Shamash

Book Overview

According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810134462
• ISBN13: 9780810134461
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"