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Original Title:	My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
ISBN:	1565129334 (ISBN13: 9781565129337)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Rodda Book Award (2009), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for NonFiction (2009), National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2008)

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past

Ariel Sabar

Paperback | Pages: 344 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 1993 Users | 327 Reviews

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Title	:	My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past
Author	:	Ariel Sabar
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	October 13th 2009 by Algonquin Books (first published August 21st 2008)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Literature. Jewish. History

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"In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers, humble peddlers and rugged loggers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born." "Caught unawares by growing ethnic tensions in the Middle East after World War II, the Jews of Zakho were airlifted to the new state of Israel in the 1950s with the mass exodus of 120,000 Jews from Iraq - one of the world's largest and least-known diasporas. Almost overnight, the Kurdish Jews' exotic culture and language were doomed to extinction." Populated by Kurdish chieftains, trailblazing linguists, Arab nomads, and devout believers, this intimate yet powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world's attention. In retelling his father's story, Ariel Sabar has found his own.

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Ratings: 4.17 From 1993 Users | 327 Reviews

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I enjoyed learning the history but really savored the personal story that parallels the history. This is a good discussion book to talk abt: 1) child / parent relationships 2) passing culture / traditions down through generations 3) how perceptions of ones own culture changes through his/her life 5) integration of faiths, 6) integration of people with the same faith but from different areas, among others.What an interesting story of how the language persisted bc the Kurds became isolated, then

This book is a gem. I turned each page feeling slightly elated.The author's father, the subject of the book is a professor in UCLA. He spent his early years on a tiny river island in Kurdistan. This river is mentioned in the Bible as when the Jews went out to Mesopotamia (Iraq) 2,700 years ago. The lingua franca of the Middle East for a thousand years was Aramaic. This is a milennia before the Arabs conquered it and imposed Arabic, a daughter language of Aramaic itself. Aramaic still lives in

Read about 4 years ago. Not fresh in mind but was a gem of a book. The vast majority of us Jews only use Aramaic in prayer. The Sabars spoke Aramaic as their mother tongue. This is their amazing story.

An interesting book which focuses on Jews who lived in Kurdistan, a part of Iraq. The author yearning to know more about his father, researches his families lives from Kurdistan to Israel and then the United States. The Kurds are a unique group of Jews who spoke Aramaic while others around them spoke Arabic. They dressed differently than other Iraqis but also Eastern European Jews. As the author researches this book through 4 generations, he not only learns about his father and other family

An excellent, award winning biography from a California raised man trying to better understand his father's journey from Kurdistan to Jerusalem to the United States. Tucked on an island in the river, cut off from the other tribes of Judaism, lived a small but thriving community of Kurdish Jews. Now a part of Iraq, the island town of Zakho found Arabs and Jews living peacefully together, speaking the ancient tongue of Aramaic, until the Jews were forced out of Iraq in the 1950s. Israel absorbed

If you are an American Jew, the offspring of immigrants, a linguist, a student of the Mideast crisis, or an ex-teen who's finally dropped the attitude, you should read this book. And if I'm not mistaken, that would be all of us.I've scarcely considered the plight of the Sephardic Jews of Western Asia much less the disposition of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Nor pondered the enormity of forced exile and the task of assimilating these uprooted peoples in America or Israel. Never knew the painstaking

Fantastic book. Sabar is a GOOD writer.I was surprised at how enjoyable this book was and easy to read (once I got into it...the first 15 pages or so). I had selected it as one of my 'grow my brain' books to read inbetween my fun reads.What a pleasant surprise. Before reading this, I can't say I knew what a Kurdish Jew was, really, and how one differred from European Jews I'd read about. I didn't have an understanding of Israel/Palestine/Iraq and their relationship with one another, other than