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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

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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"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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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)

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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

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

This is a very, very good read. The title really doesn't describe it sufficiently. This is more than about searching for a Jewish past. In fact, I don't think seeking Judaism is what the author is seeking the most. He is seeking to understand and relate to his father by delving into his father's fascinating history. His story is remarkable for many reasons, but the ones that I found most intriguing was starting life as a Jew in rural Kurdistan, speaking Aramaic, and emerging as a top notch

One of the reasons I love Goodreads, and my main group specifically, is that I pick up things I wouldnt have picked up. This is one of those gems, I never would have touched. For one, I am not drawn to non-fiction, or autobiographical memoir type things. Wrap me up in a good story! I just wouldnt have gone for it, and that would have been a loss. This was perfect for me for the January 2019 Iraq challenge, and I actually greatly enjoyed it. The book is beautifully written in places, and has gems

The Lost Tribe Loses the PlotA moving story, as so often the case, of Jews dispossessed and exiled. In this instance from the remote region of Kurdish Iraq. There is no question that this story of personal travail is worth telling and worth reading. Among other things, it is a story which provides essential background for the recent rise of Islamic State and its persecution of Kurdish Christians in a re-play of what the Iraqi government did to the Kurdish Jews almost seven decades ago. But Sabar

This book was recommended to me by one of my customers and I was not sure if I want to read it at all. I am glad that I did. It is not an ordinary biography; this book is a window into the world that does not exist anymore. Imagine a "Lost tribe of Israel" left to live peacefully in the midst of an Arab world. Imagine people who were so cut from the modern world that they spoke the Ancient Aramaic in the 20th century, while scholars pronounced this language dead for hundreds of years. It was the