The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews

by Cynthia Kaplan Shamash

This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned to their home in Baghdad, where most of their belongings had been confiscated and the door of their home sealed with wax. They moved in with friends and applied for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611688051
• ISBN13: 9781611688054
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.2"