Kesher Talk

Jews in odd places: Iraq: Prof. Sasson Somekh, a 70-year-old Israeli translator and researcher of Arabic literature, recently published his autobiography, "Baghdad Yesterday." The book recounts his childhood in Baghdad, where he lived until immigrating to Israel at age 17.

"It began with the chapters I published in Haaretz newspaper, about my childhood as an Arabic Jew who grew up among Arabs," Somekh relates. "In the book, I also wrote about such topics as how a man's emotions develop, his personal tendencies, his loves and his joys, but mostly I wrote about the background in which I grew up. I feel that I am the last Arabic Jew."

posted by William @ 2/11/2004 09:05:02 AM