An NU Press Title
Northwestern
6 x 9, 256 pp.
Trade Cloth
ISBN 0-8101-2634-6 / $27.95
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Memories of Eden
A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad
Violette Shamash
Tony Rocca
Mira Rocca
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. The result is a deeply textured memoir—
an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex
dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century.
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