Harif, The Sephardi Centre and Spiro Ark proudly presents the Book Launch of:
Iraq’s Last Jews, Tuesday 20 January 2009, 7.30pm
This important book – one of the most comprehensive to-date – tells the story of the last generation of Iraqi Jews, collecting the oral histories of wealthy businessmen, communists, popular musicians and reformist writers, Iraqi patriots and early Zionists.
Iraq’s last Jews – Stories of daily life, upheaval and escape from modern Babylon, edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha and Robert Shasha (Palgrave Macmillan, two-thousand and eight) will be on sale at a generous discount.
A total of 64 Iraqis living in the US, Canada, the UK and Israel were interviewed. Two of the UK interviewees, Aida Zelouf and Dia Kashi, whose stories were selected for the book, will attend the launch.
Copies ofof Iraq’s last Jews – Stories of daily life, upheaval and escape from modern Babylon (edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha and Robert Shasha (Palgrave Macmillan, two-thousand and eight) will be on sale at a generous discount.
Entry: £5 including light refreshments
At Sephardi Centre, 2, Ashworth Road, W9 lJY
Advance booking essential for security reasons:
By telephone on 0207 723 9991 or email
http://www.harif.org/iraqs_last_jews.html or www.spiroark.org
