Book Passage presents

Ariel Sabar

My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

When
Thu Oct 2, 2008
Where
Book Passage
Time
7pm
Tags
Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Other Literary Arts

Description

"Ariel Sabar talks about My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq ($25.95). In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for 3,000 years, lived an ancient community of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic—the language of Jesus. They were gifted storytellers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.

My Father's Paradise is Ariel Sabar's quest to reconcile present and past. As father and son travel together to today's postwar Iraq to find what's left of Yona's birthplace, Ariel brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, telling his family's story and discovering his own role in this sweeping saga. What he finds in the Sephardic Jews' millennia-long survival in Islamic lands is an improbable story of tolerance and hope."
-www.bookpassage.com

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